So technically I’ve already started uni last week, but I have yet to have a class. I only have a week of classes next week and then I’ll be off hanging around till May when I have to go to uni for my next set of one week classes. So much for having to pay AUD$10 900 for 3 units that I’m supposedly doing this semester. In actual fact I’m doing 2 units, 1 self-directed prac and a community practice theoretical unit. The other 4 units are being crammed into next semester. So I’ve only really in effect got till June to do the things I need to do before having to work my butt off at prac.
I’ve got to:
- Claim that coffee from Leigh-San, which I shall be doing next week when we meet up for lunch
- Play that elusive game of golf
- Learn how to play tennis from someone
- Learn how to play more than just notes on the guitar
- Get that job in the hospital
- Learn how to drive properly, chauffeur the girls around
- Go for lunch with the people from church. I have yet to actually stay longer than 30 minutes after church since I need to rush off to work after service
Speaking of the things I do, last week has been a week filled with pain. Sunday/Monday my wrist was painful from dismantling the bookshelf (too many screws in the thing caused an acute case of RSI to my carpal tunnel), Thursday was my back where I suddenly leaned over a table and wham! this massive pinching sensation went thru my left lower back and down to my left leg. It came to a point where I couldn’t stand and that was when I broke out in cold sweat, thinking I could have done some permanent damage to my back and Sunday was the day of the splitting headache. Actually the splitting part of the headache has gone but it comes back now and then as a throbbing pain behind my right eye socket. Maybe its the heat and tiredness doing this to me, I don’t know.
Somehow my back stopped hurting after I put on a back brace for the remainder of work. It got better to the point where I was able to walk with just a tad bit of pain and nearly managed to fall butt first into a bowl of passionfruit flavoured cream. That would be a sight, no? Speaking about falling into things, I can say (shamefully) that I fell into the chest freezer at work on Sunday :S The ladder slipped out of me and in a split second I was hanging halfway in and out of the chest freezer. I must say I have a knack for falling into/out of things, just like the time where I nearly fell into the massive mixing bowl while making continental cheesecakes.
I wonder what other things I’ll fall into or out of next.
That dreaded Mental Health paper is over. Over and done with. Out of the way before going on to study for the neuro viva.
I’ll be really glad and relieved once it’s finished on Wednesday and we’re free to enjoy the summer for at least 4 months.
Another 40 hours to go before we’re freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!! Finished with 3rd year and doing the pracs next year.
Haven’t done a list in so long so here’s the mandatory “Things to do during the holiday list”:
1. Clear out closet, get rid of clothes that make me look fat and ugly.
2. Go shopping to get new clothes to replace above mentioned clothes.
3. Work to pay for above mentioned clothes.
4. Find extra jobs to work at.
5. Start off with self-directed prac.
6. Walk the dog every day or every other day.
7. Have an extreme makeover so that when I see everyone for the summer I’m not a fat slob but looking trimmer and fitter. No, no plastic surgery involved only natural means thankyouverymuch.
8. Chillax for a while and catch up with friends who are still in Perth.
9. Give the house a spring clean.
10. Relax with the babes and attend the joint 21st.
11. Buy presents and dress for the above mentioned party.
12. Start planning for my 22nd birthday.
That’s all I’ve got for the time being. I just need to get over the half an hour of neuro viva and I’ve completed 3rd year! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Christmas is nearly here and the year is nearly over. Which can only mean 2 things: I am going home soon and it’s time for New Year’s resolutions yet again.
I’m not sure who came up with the idea of New Year’s Resolutions, but it was a good one. I am a person who likes new beginnings, new things, anything along the lines. I’ve made many a New Year’s Resolutions, but I guess not all of them have been fulfilled. There have been insane times where I’d resolved to lose an enormous amount of weight in a year (which is ridiculous, given my love of food) to the time when I guess I resolved to try going to the gym on a regular basis (this one worked out for 6 months and went downhill after that).
Of course, with the year coming to an end and reflecting over the previous year definitely puts me in a place where I’m inspired to improve myself for the year to come. I suppose trying to better myself wouldn’t hurt, but definitely coming up with resolutions that are realistic would be the number one step. So here’s hoping for a nice new year ahead, and with hope that I manage to fulfill at least 50% of my resolutions for next year.
Kristine’s New Year’s Resolutions:
- I resolve to get a 60% average for all my units in uni next year. The higher the average, the better
- I resolve to save up to go for a holiday in Melbourne with the babes and to visit Aunty Celine and the rest of the family in Melbourne
- I resolve to lost 5 kilos next year and keep it that way for the year
- I resolve to work harder at uni and to maintain a balance in life
- I resolve to blog more and nurture my creative moments. I have to set aside time to blog and let out the emotions and not let them get in the way of life
I would think 5 resolutions for the New Year is enough. Too many might just be my undoing.
As I was cleaning out my room today, I discovered some old year books of mine from college and from high school. I flipped thru the pages and found a piece of my writing in there from 2004. I also unearthed a poem I wrote a while ago. Back then, I had a passion for writing. A passion which I thought I’d pursue later on in life as I love writing. Although I’m not pursuing that, I am happy where I am now. I’m still doing something that I love and writing just has taken a back seat for a while.
Looking at where I am now, it has been a while since I’ve written the way I did a few years ago. Admittedly, I started blogging as a way to preserve memories and be anonymous on the world wide web. Have a tiny space in the gigantic space to call my own. To vent my feelings and to just be me.
I suppose since I go my own domain 2 weeks ago, the passion of writing has begun to return. I have ideas dancing in my head from time to time of what to write about. I know the amount of readers I have is tiny, but hey this is me. I don’t write for people, I write for me. I write to preserve my memories and the things I’ve done in life, be it good or bad.
Sometimes I write to amuse people and myself at the things we have been thru. I like that. I look forward each day to sit in front of the computer and just type without knowing what the end product might turn out to be like.
I look at the media nowadays and see how commercialized blogging has become. Open a book, you have people spouting off blogs who have made international fame because they have broken an interesting story or reviewed some good products or write just because of the money. Open the newspaper and you see it advertising blogs with posts such as, “My dog ate my homework” or “I went to the loo”.
Sometimes it pains me to see what blogging has become. It has now transformed into a fad where everybody who is somebody has a blog. I guess there really isn’t much harm in it, but I see it as attention seekers. No offence to them though.
Back to the topic of passion, I guess you could say that my spark for writing has been lit again. Since uni has let out for the summer, I’ve got more time on my hands and certainly more things to do as well. This calls for a list now.
Things to do during summer:
- Clean up my room, charity bin unneeded things or sell them on eBay
- Work during Christmas season for money and save up
- Blog and tweak blog
- Meet up with bloggers from Perth and Malaysia
- Pack things I need to move from Malaysia to Perth. Permenantly
- Buy, wrap and give Christmas presents
- Buy, write and mail Christmas cards
I’m actually looking forward to uni starting again. Although I’d probably change my mind during uni times 
It’s just that it feels very strange not to be studying over the summer. It’s as if something is missing in my daily routine. I can’t wait for results to come out next week, although I’m worried at the same time. But what is done, is done. No amount of worrying will do much difference and I refuse to spoil my summer worrying about something that I have no control of.
As many of you know already, I have this insane obsession with writing lists of all sorts of things to do, things to buy, and the list goes on (pun intended).
Things I Want Right This Moment:
- To get my stomach to stop making me feel very weird. I feel like chucking up my dinner, which was rice, sambal and fried eggs.
- To go to sleep. I’m tired out from the voluntary fieldwork thing today at Freo and I’ve done quite a bit of work for clin med and gero.
- To wash the make up off my face. Can’t sleep with a dirty face, now can I?
- To get this semester over and done with so I finally take a weel earned break at the beach.
- To start the new semester ASAP.
I’m buggered at the moment. Off to be I shall go.
Oh btw, daylight savings in Perth might start as soon as December 1st, so no more same time zone as Malaysia for the summer!