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Thursday, January 31, 2008

updates.. exams, bdays, monopoly, and all...

heh... haven't been updating for a while... (as usual)

somebody commented to me yesterday tt endless rain doesnt sound tt nice!!! GRRRR... but its ok.. x japan is in a league of their own.. not all worldly beings would be able to appreciate their music. :D

anyway, just finished patho exam on tuesday. and it was one GREAT day. It went really well, much better than any other exams that i have ever taken in my entire medical school career. so i really hope i will score well. i am really amazed and proud of myself. and i have to thank someone who helped me get thru the mugging, and somehow managed to get me to study 7hrs a day and accomplished the almost-impossible. :P

Well, viva list will be out on monday, and i'll know whether i have passed then. I'm 99.99999999999999% sure that i will pass la. but as i always say, anything is possible. However, I think i have a bigger chance of going to the distinction vivas than the pass/fail vivas. haha!

Yesterday (30th jan), was a really busy day. First, i woke up to watch the office (ok, not so busy). then i had to find a dvd that i promised to pass to ernest by yesterday. that took a long time... i wanted to go out shopping, go borders get a travel guide (40% off now), and go popular (orchard branch having a closing down sale). However, all that was not accomplished. :(

Anyway, i skipped all the shopping and went for yoga classes at Pure Yoga. It is one damn atas yoga place... from the front desk to the studios to the toilets to even serving really nice tea while they talk to u at their comfy couches in the common area.. i enjoyed my lessons, though the instructor had an accent which was hard to catch. am aching today, which means the exercise was good! heh... but classes are much smaller than the pilates lessons i've been taking in school. but i bet the cost is like 10 times more la.. i have 2 more free lessons effective till next tues! hmm.. wonder wat i will take...

after that, met up with ernest and nicholas (who came back fr OZ and am flying off today). had a 1/2hr meetup with him, and a treat from coffee club express.. haha... so paiseh.. i was so late too... cos of some delay at the yoga studio side... :P

then we went off to Prof Koh's house for a celebratory dinner for having on some prize at a scientific congress... dinner was good! haha... but a little spicy though. the dessert was nice too. there were some serious discussions going on between us and the profs/doctors...and they were appalled at how the medical interviews still did not manage to sift out the wierdos from entering medicine... not that we are discriminating, but experience have told them that if you cannot even relate to your own classmates, you prob cannot do the same to other human beings, much less your patients. and they did have some personal encounters for which classmates were only discovered at housemanship level to be unsuitable for the medicine field.. and then ernest proceeded to tell them about how ppl cheated in reports... Dr Koh was so disappointed... but i commented that no matter how hard you try, there will be these ppl ard, and you just have to believe that watever you do, you are really benefiting the people who are genuinely interested, and to just have faith... :)

ok, dinner went on till 11pm... tt late... afterthat, we adjourn to ernest's house to continue the party! they had a surprise bday party for me, which i was already told bat in the afternoon (cos ernest had the idea tt i may not like surprises) and YES! MY BDAY IS THIS COMING SUNDAY, 3RD FEB!!

anyway, we went to the kitchen to get drinks, when somebody opened the fridge and suddenly changed the topic. at that point in time, i knew tt i shld be automatic and dismiss myself. stanley promptly followed me and asked me to go get the boardgames that we wanted to play... ernest, showed us the way, and i assumed tt jeremy was left to settle the candles and cake... (there's jsut the 4 of us) after getting the board games, we got downstairs and the surprised me with the cake.. i was genuinely surprised, cos i din know when they gonna take it out... haha...and i must say they work really well together... (aftertt, i found out tt jeremy din even know abt the surprise party)

the cake was nice, some fruity cake from bengawan solo... i still have 1/3 of it in my fridge.. yummy!

we played monopoly till 2am... it was really fun... i was losing at first... kept going to jail and thus, had no chance to buy land. and then stanley got desperate and made a bad trade with me.. he was unsure with some of the rules, which resulted in that trade... (i gave him an orange lot for parklane and TWO train stations!) haha! i snapped it up immediately. aftertt, the luck and money just kept rolling in.. i ended up building 8 houses la... wahah! i subsequesntly made other trades, and ended up with 4 train stations and the green row.. and i had deals with the others such that i only have to pay the site rent for certain lots... so in the end, the ones that i really have to pay big money for was for some of the lousier coloured rows.. i won the game with $8000++ haha! damn shiok! haven't played board games for a really long time...

so in summary, it was a really good day...
1. had yoga lesson
2. met nicholas
3. had a good dinner
4. ppl planned a surprise party for me
5. played monopoly and WON!

lol...

and i'm goddamn tired today... slept the whole day la! if not i would have gone orchard to finished those unfinished business... :)

will followup with photos soon!

and life still goes on...

Jin Xi posted at 11:04 pm
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