Back home for Hari Raya holidays

i came home last Friday, bringing back lots of notes and a few books to read... why? to prepare for the upcoming exams!

caught cold in the bus, it was raining throughout the journey and very cold in the bus... i put on my sweater but still, it's not warm enough... i've been having blocked nose and coughing since the day i came back... it's better now :)

as what i've expected, i didn't really study much at home... due to the flu and cough, plus the television :P, i've more than enough excuses to leave my notes on my desk, barely touched... i've only finished reading 3 chapters of my Biochemistry :'( planned to study Physiology too, but my whole family will be leaving for A'Famosa in Malacca on Friday morning... *sigh

with these conditions (flu and cough), i don't think i'll be fit enough to join the rest of my family in the water park... mum won't allow me to go either... i think i can only join them to the cowboy town at night, unless my condition got better...

university reopens next week... one more week of classes, plus a week of study week, i'll be sitting for my very first exam since i entered university... wonder how i would perform... hope not to fail myself and all my love ones... wish me luck :)

Conjunctivitis!

one of my coursemates got conjunctivitis (bacterial infection in the conjuntival sac - in the eyelids) 2 weeks ago... i got the disease from her last week! only my left eye was affected... went to the student health clinic, got the eye drops, eye ointment, vit. C, antibiotics... didn't recover but got worse! Uncle brought me to USJ Taipan Clinic on Sunday, got another kind of eye drops... went to UM Medical Centre to get my eye chekced by the specialist... the ophthalmologist said that the infection had spread to my right eye! the condition of my left eye was quite serious, with pseudomembrane formed in the superior region of my conjunctival sac... she removed the pseudomembrane, it bled! ...it's normal :)

my condition got worse as my eye was allergic to the eye drops (Chloramphenicol)! i didn't know about that!

went to the hospital for a follow-up thsi morning... the doctor said my condition was improving :) went to a pharmacy (Prima Health) in PJ SS2 to buy a stronger antibacterial eye drop - Tobramycin Dexamethasone. it contains steroid, so it should work faster...

a special thanks to my bf and his 5th year buddy for helping me :) i need not mention it here, but u guys should know what i mean :)

Exams!!!

today's the election day of the Majlis Perwakilan Mahasiswa Universiti Malaya @ Malaya University Student Representative Council...

casted my vote this morning... it's kinda politicial... can't comment much here, and actually, i've not much knowledge on this :) hope that my bf can win the election to become one of the student representatives of his faculty...

Exam 1.2 is scheduled in mid-November... haven't prepared much... aiming high but not sure whether i can hit my target or not... anyway, it's 10% of the total score... some see it as little, but i think it's quite important 'cause if i can score high in minor exams, i won't have to worry much in the finals...

Oral Biology - easy to score, but i don't really like it...

Biochemistry - lots of memorisation needed... boring... hate it...

Anatomy - gross is fun for thorax but definitely not head & neck!

Physiology - love it the most!!! but it's the hardest to score high...

hmm... gotta be more hardworking... to distress? i'll listen to Maxim's music :) cheers~

Majlis Anugerah Kecemerlangan Pelajar Matrikulasi Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia 2006

it was held at Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC) on 16 September 2006.

on the night before the ceremony, all award recipients are required to attend the rehearsal at PICC... my parents came all the way from Johor to pick me from UM to Putrajaya on Fri evening... the traffic was very congested on Kesas Highway... luckily, i wasn't late... most of the award recipients spent the night at Pusat Latihan Bank Simpanan Nasional, a hostel in Kajang, near Putrajaya... reached there around 12.30am after the rehearsal! slept at around 1.30am, woke up at 5.15am, 'cause breakfast was scheduled at 6am... but eventually, the food was only ready by 6.30am... oh~ didn't have enough rest...

wore my newly made pink kebaya :) waited for the Deputy Education Minister for an hour outside the auditorium... was very tired 'cause i was in wearing high heels! there're 297 of us, chosen from 1000++ student who got CGPA4.0... 20000++ matric students in total... so we're 1% of all the 2005/2006 intake students :) we're selected based on our academic performances and co-curricular achievements... and we're nominated by our college lecturers respectively... met many familiar faces there... most of us are UM students...

all 297 award recipients received a certificate, a piuter plaque and an RM200 cheque. the best students for each subject and each stream were given another certificate, a trophy and an RM300 cheque. the best student received a certificate, a trophy and an RM1000 cheque...

exam's in mid-November... barely grasped anything in Sem1.1... gotta catch up with the rest before it's too late!

Back in uni...

nw at new Dental Fac computer lab... searching for online journals for my Oral Biology project... have to read 10-15 journals... the title -- "Honey and Oral Health"... anyone who's got reliable e-jounal websites, please send me the URL ok? thanks :) i'm using PubMed and ScienceDirect...

arrived at 6th after 7pm yesterday... traffic jam! oh, it's common here in Malaysia :-/

slept at around 1.30am last night... was preparing for my Anatomy SDL (student-directed learning)... woke up at 5.45am... didn't go to sleep again... was sneezing for hours! for unknown reasons! i'm really tired now...