MSN Chat.

One fine day, Jessica met Qi online.

Qi: Let's webcam!

Jessica: Eh, video conversation better! Can talk and see each other.

Qi: Okay okay.

So they went about setting up their webcams and microphones. Jessica clicked on the Video Conversation and then she saw this.

BWHAHAHA. It's funny! Qi cannot see Jessica, but she can hear her voice, while Jessica could see Qi, but cannot hear her! This makes Qi a blind person, and Jessica a deaf person.

Cos Qi couldn't see Jessica, she was furious! She went ROAR!

After realising it was useless to get furious, she stopped roaring. But after she stopped roaring, she became MAD.

Qi had a really great idea and decided to edit the MSN man to Jessica, so it would resemble more of Jessica, instead of a pot of green lard.

Jessica: 'WONDERFUL CREATIVITY, I LIKE IT!' I give it 99.9%. The 0.1% was lost to the big tummy of Mr. MSN man. But I still like the image of a sexy bikini MSN girl. Great job!

Boredom is definitely driving me nuts. But I want to thank Qi for giving me such an interesting MSN chat! It was really fun right? We should do this more often, and we can cook up more cock and bull stories.

Walking In The Rain - A1

Booboo.

It's raining cats and dogs AGAIN. Sometimes I thank the Lord for the rain, cos' I can sleep in and my sleep would be a better one. But rain always makes me feel depressed. Don't ask me why, cos I don't know either.

When I was lil' Jessica, I always thought that it'd rain when someone in this world is crying, and the rain would stop if that person stops crying. For sure, I know now that it isn't true after all. But it seemed so real, cos' there was really a time when I cried and it started raining, and the rain stopped when I stopped. That's the most amazing thing ever. But, oh well, now I'm no longer in some fairy tale life, the reality is that rain is actually part of the water cycle. Boo. How boring is that?

Surely, there will be someone in this world crying at this instant. He/she could be crying cos' he/she ran first in her annual school marathon, he/she could be crying cos' he/she has lost a loved one, or he/she could be crying because it's raining. -.- Okay, that's highly improbable.

People always describe rain as a depressing event, like a down in your life, but after the rain, the rainbow comes out, and life seems to be better - the up in your life. Why don't we look at rain as a good thing? After all, rain is also created by God. Somewhere in this world, a little town may be in need for water, cos' it hasn't been raining for ages, and they're all thirsty and dehydrated. Rain can actually save their lives, to replenish them so they can work in the fields again. Rain water can be reused to water our plants. Rain can make a city go all so romantic. (hur hur hur) Rain can make Singapore cooler. Rain can turn into snow if it's really cold, so kids can play and have fun (excludes getting sick). After the rain, there's a pretty rainbow.

Rainbow Brite, one of the many cartoons I watched when I was a kid.

Wow, so rain isn't a bad thing after all. I think I need to change my perspective of rain now. Something I've learnt after typing this post out - I need to write things down so I can ponder long about them. Do give yourselves time to think of stuff. Not nonsensical stuff, that is.

Sitting Down Here - Lene Marlin

Mooloo people, how have you guys been? Great? (:

Today's a public holiday (ANZAC DAY), so everyone in NZ is great (except for those who's got presentations and assignments to hand in tmr!)! So buy some poppies people! Haha. Speaking of public holidays, does anyone know if it's a public holiday, is it ILLEGAL to open your store and continue business on that day?

Take the Easter weekend for example. Many Kiwis have to stock up food in their pantry for the long weekend, since most shops are closed on Good Friday, Easter Sunday and maybe Easter Monday. Shops DO include supermarkets! However, on both Good Friday and Easter Sunday, we had our dinner @ Asian Restaurant, which shows that it isn't at all illegal to be open for business on a public holiday. Otherwise some funny police would storm into the shop and demand the lady boss to close her shop. Come to think of it, it would be very funny.

Funny Policeman: HEY MRS LADY BOSS, you aren't supposed to be open for business today! What are you doing serving food to these lazy students who can't be bothered to cook at home?!

Lady Boss: Oh oh oh, I'm sorry Funny Policeman, but these students need to have their food, or they'll starve tonight!

Funny Policaman: No, it's an absolute NO! You have to close for the day now.

Lady Boss: Since it's already 830pm, why don't you wait till 930pm when we close? You can stay here while I give you some chow mein. FOC, Sir!

Funny Policeman: Hmm, that doesn't sound like a bad idea. Okay, then! Bring in the crispy chicken chow mein!

OH MAN, I'm getting lamer and lamer by the day.

But other than the restaurant we ate at, most shops are closed, including other resturants. Hmm. And there weren't many customers @ Asian Restaurant as well. This still baffles me. Haha.

I've still got a week of holiday to relax and study (hur hur hur). Yesterday has been wasted on DOTA. Oh man, seriously, that thing is addictive! So if you haven't started on that game, please don't even think about playing it. It hooks and clings on you for a long time. WHAHAHA. I don't know about you guys, but I'm kinda addicted to it, even though I'm really bad at Dota. Hmm.

At the computer lab. We had almost 10 people playing together last night, and all are from our church. HAHA. We've been dota-ing like mad since coming back from church camp. Awww, church camp.. I miss it so much now. Anyway, 8 of us started playing first. It was girls vs guys (4 v 4). Our team (the girls team, of course!) actually had only 3 girls, then Joshua changed his name to Hooi Xian and pretended to be a girl. ROFL. But he's the Dota pro after all, so after all the rage and killing and pawning and whatever, the girls' team WON!!!! LOL. Ben was actually next to me, and I pawned on him first! Ben said, 'THAT'S IT, JESS.' and we kept killing and attacking each other. Seriously, this game does affect your relationship with your friends, especially if you're on different teams. So I would say to Ben, 'OK, so I've killed you once, now you can come and try to take my head.' Doesn't sound fun anymore right? But if we don't do that, he'll start complaining 'JESS WHY YOU KILL ME AGAIN...'. BWAHAHAHA. I stopped playing after 2 rounds of Dota (ONLY), before I started to surf the net and dozed off with my head on the table.

I think I'm really bad at keeping myself awake through the whole night. I don't know how you guys do it, but if I actually DID stay up through the night, I'd already be on my bed before 7am. No kidding! And if I don't have anything interesting things to do, I'd fall asleep before 3am. These timings are like fixed into my life. Imagine.

Jessica can sleep at most 13 hours. Jessica has to sleep at least 5.5 hours. Jessica cannot stay awake for more than 24 hours. etc..

Okay, back to last night. The rest of them continued playing while I was slipping into my dream after the 2nd game. Ben had to send me home before rushing back to continue playing. I felt abit booboo-ed, cos I can't stay awake!! ): Oh well, nevermind. I guess it isn't just me who can't stay awake. Maybe computer games are not my things after all, if you compare it to shopping, singing, dancing etc. YEH!

ASEAN Cultural Night will be held on 29th April 2006 at Castle 1, Otago Uni students! Please come and support ME!!! I mean, please come and support US!!! Hahaha. This year's ASEAN Night is co-hosted by the Otago Singapore Club and the Otago Malaysian Students Association. I really hope there would be a good turn out, because the Mayor of Dunedin and the High Commissioner of Singapore stationed at Wellington would be coming down to see this performance. We'll just do our best! Speaking of which, we've only got 4 days to go till the big night! The dance is finally completed! All we gotta do now is to put in my ENERGY and effort. Can't wait!


Grabbed from Michie. (: And as Mich says, BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!! Woohoo!


I know, I know, I still haven't posted the camp photos up. No worries, after I've gotten them into my hands (Muahaha), I'd post alot alot of photos ok? (:

Happy Anzac Day to all Australians and NZers!

Church Camp 2006

An absolute success. Many thanks to the church committee and everyone who went for the camp. Remember the motto of the camp - BREAK THE COCOON AND COME OUT!!! （破茧而出）.

The 4 days 3 nights camp just came and went so quickly. I already miss staying with all of them... Aww.. Haha. We're well taken care of and had loads of fun. Will get the photos soon and will post them up. DCMC 一极棒 !

Recognized Foreign Medical Schools in Singapore

I have been told many times that my university degree would be recognized in Singapore (which means I can work there), but I've never actually went to search for the whole list of universities which are recognized. So I googled it and I found this! (I think this is more relevant for Singaporeans studying Med overseas, like THAZIN.), but it's fun looking at those names. Check out those from EUropean countries at the bottom.

LIST OF MEDICAL SCHOOLS IN THE REVISED SCHEDULE (March 2003)

AUSTRALIA
Faculty of Medicine, University of Adelaide
School of Medicine, the Flinders University of South Australia
Faculty of Medicine, University of Melbourne
Faculty of Medicine, Monash University
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Newcastle
Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales
The University of Queensland Medical School
Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney
Faculty of Medicine, University of Tasmania
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Australia

CANADA
Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
Faculty of Medicine, McGill University
Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa
Faculty of Medicine, Queen's University
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario

HONG KONG
Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong

IRELAND
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Dublin (Trinity College)
Faculty of Medicine, National University of Ireland, University College Cork
Faculty of Medicine, National University of Ireland, University College of Dublin
Faculty of Medicine, National University of Ireland, University College Galway
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (National University of Ireland)

NEW ZEALAND
Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University of Auckland
Otago Medical School, University of Otago

UNITED KINGDOM
Faculty of Medicine and Medical Science, University of Aberdeen
College of Medicine and Health Sciences, the Queens University of Belfast
The Medical School, University of Birmingham
The Medical School, University of Bristol
School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Dundee
Medical School, University of Edinburgh
Faculty of Medicine, University of Glasgow
School of Medicine, University of Leeds
School of Medicine, University of Leicester
Faculty of Medicine, University of Liverpool
The University of London Medical Schools, including:
The Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of MedicineI
mperial College School of Science, Technology and Medicine
St. Bartholomew's and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London
Royal Free and University College Medical School
St George's Hospital Medical School
Faculty of Medicine, University of Manchester
Faculty of Medicine, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
The University of Nottingham Medical School
Oxford University Medical School
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Sheffield Medical School
Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton
Medical School, University of St Andrews
College of Medicine, University of Wales

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Baylor College of Medicine
Los Angeles School of Medicine, University of California
School of Medicine, University of California at San Diego
San Francisco School of Medicine, University of California
Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (New York)
Cornell University Medical College (New York)
Duke University School of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Mayo Medical School
University of Michigan Medical School (Ann Arbor)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
University of Washington School of Medicine (Seattle)
Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis)
Yale University Medical School

That list right there was confirmed on March 2003, and on March this year (2006), 29 more medical schools were added to the list, and they are:

List of additional 29 foreign medical schools to be recognised (March 2006)

Austria
Medizinische Universitat Wien, Vienna
Medizinische Universitat Innsbruck
BelgiumKatholieke Universiteit Leuven

Denmark
Aarhus University

Finland
Helsinki University

France
Universite de Louis Pasteur
Strasbourg IUniv Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)

Germany
Ruprecht-Karls Universitaet Heidelberg
Ludwig-Maximilians Universitaet Munchen
Humboldt Universitaet Zu Berlin (Charite Medical School)
Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universitaet Frankfurt

Italy
Universita di Roma La Sapienza (Facolta I and II)
Universita di Firenze

Japan
University of Tokyo
Kyoto University

Netherlands
Erasmus Universiteit
Universiteit Utrecht
Universiteit Van Amsterdam

Norway
Universitetet I Oslo

Sweden
Karolinska Institutet
Uppsala Universitet
Universitetet I Lund

Switzerland
Universitat Zurich
Universite de Geneva
Universitat Basel
Universitat Bern

USA
Case Western Reserve University
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Iowa

It's quite cool to the the only 2 NZ unis with medical schools recognized in Singapore - Otago Med School, and Auckland Uni Med School. So right now, there should be 100 foreign universities recognized. For those of you whose uni isn't listed may still apply to the SMC to practise under temporary registration.

Go here for more details.

Good Friday.

It is Good Friday. The day Jesus died on the cross. That is how great His love is for us. My cell group leader asked me a few hours ago: Why 'good' when Jesus died on the cross? Well, that's because he died for us. I actually want to tell all of you the significance of this day, but I guess I don't have the adequate information and facts. That's because I haven't read much of the Bible (bad me) and tomorrow's church service would officially be the 1st Good Friday service I've been to. I will tell you guys after I get accurate information ok? (:

I've been to the supermarket several times these few weeks, and some of the shelves are decorated with bunny drawings and filled with many different brands of chocolates too. The 'festival' has been so commercialised that people only think of Easter eggs, bunnies and hot cross buns during Easter. It is definitely much more than that, and I'm sure most Christians would know that. I don't mean that I don't buy those Easter eggs, I actually do! My friends also gave some to me. YUMMY. Haha! Too bad I've got a sore throat. So many choc eggs waiting for me to engulf themmm.

I'll obediently stay home tomorrow to reflect and think of the meaning of Good Friday. I want to watch Passion of the Christ again!

Dissection...

IMPORTANT: I think this post sounds kinda crude, so pardon me if you get put off.

Taken from Merriam Webster Online Dictionary -

dissect
Pronunciation: di-'sekt; ÷dI-'sekt, ÷'dI-"
Function: verb
Etymology: Latin dissectus, past participle of dissecare to cut apart, from dis- + secare to cut
1 : to separate into pieces : expose the several parts of (as an animal) for scientific examination
2 : to analyze and interpret minutely

cadaver
Pronunciation: k&-'da-v&r
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin, from cadere to fall:
a dead body; especially one intended for dissection

So I made up my mind this morning that I won't vomit/faint during my lab today. We've seen prosections cut off from older cadavers during our first 7 labs, and today, we are introduced to REAL cadavers. Yes, the whole fresh body. And what are we gonna do with them? DISSECT THEM, of course!

Since there is a limited number of cadavers for all the students, we've got our cadavers with their skull sawn and brains taken out. So, if you see them at the head region, you'll only see a hollow ball thingy there. Eyes have been dug out, but other than that, everything's intact.

I thought there'd be people fainting during the dissection itself, but I was left disappointed! So our batch is one strong and brave batch! But I think there was this girl who cried even before dissection started. Hmmm.

The cadaver that my group had was a huge man. He died of a stroke, probably due to the huge amount of fats he's got in that body of his. We had to flip him over such that his back is facing us. Since the body's lost quite abit of water, and this man was quite old, his whole back was flattened, so it looked kinda gross...

We had to cut the gluteal region (buttocks) to see the major muscles and nerves, and damn, this guy's got real lots of fats oozing outta his butt. We also dissected the back of the knee to look for tendons and nerves and muscles, and luckily it wasn't as fatty at that region. The whole 2 hours of dissection past sooooo slowly I couldn't wait to leave the dissection room! We could smell the chemicals put in the cadavers and it was just unbearable.

And no, this is not the end of dissection. I think I've got more dissection sessions after Easter! We're still left with the anterior part of the lower body, and also the back. One of the groups had actually dissected the back, and onestly speaking, it was so cool! I could see the different muscle group and everything! Maybe the student dissected it well. I think I'm bad at dissecting!! I dissected the back of the knee so we could see the inside. I was supposed to slice the skin first, then the next layer which is the subcutaneous tissue (yellowy stuff), then the deep fascia(whitish layer), before we could even see the muscles. I think I was too eager, so I cut straight through the deep fascia and into the muscle! OH MAN.... That was embarrassing. But now I know I've learnt something - ALWAYS BE PATIENT, AND TREAT OTHERS LIKE HOW YOU WANT OTHERS TO TREAT YOU. Oh yeah, I wouldn't want someone cutting straight into my muscles! Whaha.

Although this sounds like a really bad experience, I've learnt abit from this lab, and there will be more of the same kinda labs in later years.

How come I feel like I don't wanna do this again... No, I cannot look at it this way. I must strive and do my best in every lab. Oh yeah.

Week before Easter.

The weeks seem to be passing on by so quickly. It'll be Easter week for NZ from Friday onwards. I've been waiting for Easter since foreverrr. I'd be getting 2 weeks of no lectures and tutorials till 1st May. I really need this break terribly, to catch up on my sleep and also on my studies.

This week hasn't been all too good. Flu's attacked me from the back and my throat is sore. My nose is runny and all I want to do is sleep. I think the deprivation of sleep is a secondary cause of my sickness. There was a day (i think it was thursday) when I went to Ben's place for lunch, and right after lunch I slept!!! Ya, I sound like a pig right.. So I skipped 3 lectures in the afternoon, adding up to 3 hours. So this means I pon-ed school for 3 whole hours ever since I left ACJC. Despite the guilt, I couldn't help it. I seriously needed that rest.

And yesterday, my left eye was soooo painful I really thought I was going blind. My flatmate checked me up and said he's gotten it alot of times, and he taught me a way of reducing the pain. He had me placing a hot towel over my left eye for a minute or so, doing the same thing for a few times. It really did work!! Thank GOD. I wasn't gonna get blind! LOL. It should be me straining of eye too much. I played pool in the afternoon so he joked that I was aiming too hard on the pool ball until my eye muscles were strained. HAHAHA. Super funny.

What I'd be doing for Easter? We've got a 4 days 3 night church camp!!! I'm definitely looking forward to that. And I wanna go up to Christchurch for some shopping!! Nothing's confirmed yet, but hopefully I can. Hee.

Okay, I just wanna end this entry with a line from this wonderful song - In Heaven's Eyes by Sandi Patti.

In Heaven's eyes, there are no losers.

Ciao!

Church 10th Anniversary!

And yes, the title speaks it all. DCMC had its 10th anniversary just yesterday. Here are some photos from yesterday. Haven't got all the photos yet, so I'll post them right after I get them.


The cutting of the cake. (:


Photo taking is FUN. We've got many people in this collage! Hooi Xian, Janice, Dennis, Lawrence, David, Church poster, Yeo's Chrysanthemum tea, Isabelle(!!!), Ben, Rachel, Joshua, Joy, James, Natalie, Joyce, Josephine. And of course, myself. (: Okay, the Yeo's packet drink and poster don't count as people.

Okay, I wanna take this opportunity to also introduce to you this real cute guy from a Jap drama I'm currently watching. Unfortunately I didn't manage to get his name right, so I'll let Jac tell you guys his name okay? Anyway the drama's title is Nobuta Wo Produce. Not a bad show, and not a good show at the same time. But the thing about Jap dramas is that they also end every episode with something good, something that you can make use in your daily lives. Sweet.


This cute guy from Nobuta wo Produce! KAWAII NE!!!!!!

I'll then end this post with an ugly picture of the tired me. Happy viewing. LOL.

ME.