Once again, my fingers have clicked too fast and managed to shut the window down while trying to type up a post. Grrrrrr………This is starting to seriously annoy me. Anyway, I’ve almost finished my annotated bibliography assignment! I’ve got a few more assignments to go, but I’m praying that it’ll go quick and that it’ll be finished with minimal pain and fuss.
Yesterday’s weekend worship service was awesome! It was great to hear them play songs that I grew up to and learnt to love over the years. Worshiping is part of praising God and it defintely is a wonderful thing. Out of everything yesterday, I’ve learnt to put my trust in God for He has a plan in my life, eventhough I might not know or understand what He wants in my life just yet.
There are times where I’ve grown disheartend and lost sight of God, but I am only human. I am not perfect, only God is. I’ve learnt to pray first and not as a last resort. I know I’m guilty of that at times, but I’m learning and growing in Him each and everyday. It certainly is quite interesting to see what kind of a person I was a few years ago to what I am now. I can say I see subtle changes in myself that I find it hard to believe. But anyway, church is having the annual baptism day on 20th May and I’m seriously considering being baptised then. It is quite a big step and I feel that I’m ready to take the next step in my walk with Him. I’ll be praying for guidance and whoever is reading this, please pray for me as I consider this.
I’ve watched 3/4 of episode 1 of Heroes and I’m hooked. I can understand why people want to watch it so much! I like the quote by Peter’s mum: “If you put everyone first, you’ll end up last”. Somehow I can relate to that cause I always seem to be putting other people’s interests first before mine. I guess I’ve gotta learn how to discern when to be miss nice and when to leave people be.
Anyway, I should get back to doing my assignment, which is due at 2pm today 
OKlah, its like 12.17am and I’m supposed to be either sleeping or finishing up my annotated bibliography. But you know me that I tend to procrastinate a lot and therefore created this for you to fiddle around with if you’re bored. Do try it yea? Since a lot of people in the blogosphere had it, I had to put it up 
Enjoy!
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It has finally happened. I overslept my 2 alarms.
By 2 hours and 45 minutes. This has got to be a record.
Admittedly, sleeping at 12.30am and putting the alarms on at 6am wasn’t going to get me anywhere, but somehow in my sleepiness I manged to reset my handphone alarm to 7.30am and clicked it off when it rang. Only when I sleepily thought to myself to check the time, and noticed that it was already 8.45am, I jumped out of bed and quickly packed my bags to go to uni.
It didn’t help that my room was sort of in a mess from the night before, and that I had strewn my books and papers all across my room. I couldn’t have moved any quicker if someone poked me with a million needles. Needless to say, I’m still a bit dazed at the moment after the long day at uni today where we finally finished making the 5 splints needed for the assignment. At least that bit is over and done with, now all that is needed of that is to write up the 300 word critique and do the CAA lab test and learn my stuff and I can finish this stupid assignment. Woohoo!
Anyway, last night was such a blast! Although now I owe Amanda $800,000 from poker last night That was my first time playing poker, but still it is quite a big loss. Oh well, I’ll have to learn how to play poker properly next time Tim swept the table, which was quite a feat towards the end. People that were there: Justin, Chester, Tim, Adeline, Nick who ‘gate crashed’, me, Amanda and Aaron.
The Swedish meatballs were so yummy! As well as the mash, wedges, chips, salad, gravy and something-berry jam. I think I must have put on so much weight after that massive meal! I must say, I’ve never eaten meatballs with jam in my life but it does have this taste to it that I like
We had a very interesting dinner over the webcam with Fiona all the way in Singapore. Try eating thru the webcam, very interesting experience
Here’s more pictures, thanks to Amanda:
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Now is probably a good time to stop here and start on my assignment which I want to get finished by today so I can do the rest of the irritating assignments before the end of the week.
I’m still contemplating what to wear to the dinner this Friday, its a tie between the 3 dresses: the lacy one which dips dangerously low that I have to wear a tube top underneath, a plain black dress which is pretty bland apart from the buckle in the front or the black dress with the white patterns and a bit of tutu material on the bottom edge. Personally I think its the lacy dress due to the fact that I can barely zip up the other 2 due to the pigging out I’ve been doing all week due to the stress.
Shoes: I’ve decided to wear my Mollini heels I got last year at a ridiculous $55 during the clearance sale. I must say, its the sparkles that got me And the fact that they were in silver and would match most of the clothes I own.
Accessories: I’m thinking big earrings with sparkles or the long sparkly ones I have. Really depends on what i do for my hair. Tiffany bracelet and possibly a necklace. I don’t know.
Hair: I’m still undecided but I think I’ll let it down and seriously hope it behaves itself on that night. Either that or curl it, though my hair is kinda short to be doing that.
Makeup: Hmmm……heavier than usual of course, but not to the point of going all crazy and doing stage makeup.
Handbag: Errr….this would be quite an interesting question. I haven’t though of it yet. Though it’ll probably have to accommodate my wallet and mobile and keys, which is quite a lot.
The result: Pictures will be up soon *wink* I get so excited planning stuff! This is going to be fun! 4 hours worth of preparation (or I would like to think), and I’ll be looking different than usual *fingers crossed*
If anybody has any ideas to tell me on what to wear or anything, just drop me a comment
This is sort of a good news, bad news post.
Good news: I finally cleaned up my room. Now it looks like its livable again without me having to jump over piles of books, clothes and bags all on the floor.
Bad news: It took the entire day to get it done properly.
Then again, I could always choose to ignore that I took a whole day to compartmentalise my room again and focus on trying to maintain a balance in life. I’m the sort of person who swings from one end of the spectrum to the other in a matter of weeks. I can be buried in my books for 1 week and not touching a book the next week. Good thing tomorrow is a holiday (ANZAC Day) and I will at least have time to try and finish 1 assignment while taking a break at night.
It’s only 8.15pm, and I plan to work till midnight tonight to solidly read those 2 articles and critically review those papers. Here’s to me not procrastinating!
We had a party at Joe’s house today as it’s Gloria’s birthday today!! We celebrated it along with Benson’s, Justin Chin’s and Richie’s birthday. Boy, I’m glad that I decided to take the night off and go for a while. I don’t think it would have been good for me to be sitting in front of the computer all night trying to figure out my assignment and feeling all miserable while everybody is having fun.
Here are the pictures I took during the party. Feel free to download them from my blog. I’ll be putting up a gallery soon, so I’ll shove all the pictures there so everyone can download too. Disclaimer: Please don’t be offended with the sibtitles or captions, they are just for the fun of it Enjoy!
Here they are:
L-R: Me, Gloria, Justin, Joe
L-R: Yong, Victor, Michie
L-R: Gloria, Richie, Justin
As above
Amanda and Me
Michie and Me
The we-love-to-touch-Joe people. I still don’t get why they were doing that
This I can understand. Though, it does look a bit sus
So JY cut his hair and thus attracted a whole bunch of guys touching his head, while he attacks someone else
Amanda and Justin
It was JY’s idea for this and everybody else seemed to realise the picture was being taken but poor Wen. But seriously, this is quite amusing
I reckon this is quite a nice photo, although we must have made a pretty sight while taking these photos.
L-R: Me, Cheesy, Justin
I have no idea what this picture was taken for, but hey, it is funny
JY and the PS, which was quite an entertaining sight
Forgive me JY, I just find the pictures hilarious
I’ve got a few more, so whoever wants more than these photos, just drop me a line and I’ll hand the rest to you
I would like to think of myself as a person with resilience. A person who learns to adjust to life’s obstacles and learn to ignore things which upset me. The way Ange, Lin and me were left sitting at the table alone ourselves during the childhood tutorial was just such a glaring reminder to me that things don’t change much where ever I am. That doesn’t change a thing. I’ve learnt to put all these negative things out of my head and focus on the positive. Although I must say, at time I loose the battle and all the bottled up feelings just burst up and its not a pretty sight at all.
With Euhin and Lin’s comments on how I looked tiny, I decided to take a good look at myself in the mirror today. And I realised what they were getting at when they told me that I lost so much weight. At first I thought they were joking, but the mirror doesn’t lie. It’s the individual’s visual perception that differs. I know I’ve lost a bit of weight during the Easter Break due to working almost every day and stressing about lots of things. I did go for walks/jogs, which I think contributed to the weight loss. Another compliment this week was when Amanda (hey Amanda! :)) thought I was lighter than I really was. Hehe…I know I tend to obsess a tiny bit about my weight, but you’d have to understand what I’ve been through in the past to see where I ‘m coming from. I went thru a stage of a slight eating disorder that I certainly am not proud off. That issue can be analysed in from so many aspects, but I’d rather forget about that period in my life.
I look at the mirror now and see how much I’ve changed in the 4 months and I ask myself, have I changed for myself or is just one of my phases? I don’t think I’ve done anything drastic or stupid, so I think I’m in this year to get fit and give up all my bad habits. I think turning 21 really has brought about many life changes in me and none of which I regret. I am still me essentially and that does not change me as a person.
I really think its time for bed after such an exhausting day. I do need my beauty sleep
P/S: Any J-Lifers who reads this, could I please have your MSN? Either add me: gazooie@hotmail.com or drop me a comment for me to add you. Thanks!
I seriously don’t get how we’re meant to do the assignments for the rehab unit. It just doesn’t make sense. There is no detailed guidelines and we’re just meant to write what we think is right and basically pray for the best.
I’ve got a funny feeling in my tummy right now and it ain’t the feeling of finishing the pack of M&Ms at one go. It’s a feeling of butterflies when I’m stressed and my flight reaction is kicking in. Next, I’ll be pulling off a Kristine Moment and doing something crazy. I smell it in the air now (not literally la of course, I know I’m good but I’m not mental).
I just feel lost for this unit, there are so many things we’re meant to do and we don’t know what to do. I know being in 3rd year, they expect us to have more experience and they’re treating us like professionals. But in all seriousness, we have not done clinicals yet and we have no idea what it looks like in a real setting. There always is a theory-practice divide and the divide for OT now is massive. We apparently know the theoretical stuff but we haven’t got a chance to put it into practice yet. This is driving me insane as we’re just regurgitating things out without really knowing how to apply them to the context.
Euhin asked me a very good question today, “Do you see yourself as an OT?”
Very promptly I told him I do not. It’s just because instead of the voluntary fieldwork thing we had last year, I got sent off on a 2 hour lecture in Freo to hear about an OTs role in self management of COPD and CVD. I have not met a client/patient/whatever the term is nowadays and I’m beginning to feel the real need to go out and meet someone and try my OT skills on them. Then there is also the matter of not being able to practice OT if I’m not registered and also the issue about not being able to work without a PR.
So many things on my mind and it really is wearing me down to the bone. I think I think too much about things that I really shouldn’t be thinking too much off. I have a habit of over analysing things and sometimes it drives me to my wit’s end. It’s not even 9pm and I think I’m burnt out for the night. I need someone to talk to. Sigh.
I’ve always wondered how some girls can walk comfortably all day long in their high heels or even stilletos while I am so unco even with normal flats on.
Out of the blue last year, I got some Mollini heels that were less than half price and plus they were shiny and we all know how I’m attracted to shiny and colourful things. So I bought them on impulse and I know they look so nice but I have serious doubts about how I’m going to walk in them during Zaneta’s dinner next week.
Anyway, back to the whole heels vs flats issue. I’m not one who walks easily in heels although I love them dearly cause it adds much needed vertical advantage. I’ve read somewhere that heels temporarily fixes a girls posture so that she can stand tall and look slimmer. But then after prolonged wearing, it causes the pelvis to have an anterior tilt which apparently is not healthy for the womb, which is why I suppose most women give up heels while pregnant and plus their feet swell up so much that they can’t fit into their heels anyway.
Flats look sexy I reckon, although you probably would have to have good arch support while wearing it or else the longitudinal arches of your feet will weaken and you’d end up with flat feet. Which is another topic on its own, since you’re likely to suffer a lot of pain and discomfort while running. Take it from me who is on the way to developing flat feet in the very near future.
There really isn’t much point in this post, its just that I’m enjoying my M&Ms while typing this. And to find out that I have that 300 word essay due sooner than expected is making me eat a lot more M&Ms.
*grumbles at IGA who have to entice me with their sale for bags of M&Ms*