15 more hours =D

till the moment I've been waiting for since the start of the school year! I'm ecstatic!

anyways, Verity posted this youtube link on facebook. It's a very very interesting way of telling ppl who OTs are and what we do. Lol. Watch!



Ahh I digressed. Too excited about 3.15pm tomorrow that I can't study. Hahah. I'm going to miss spending late nights at the abacus... weird, but true. Guess I should stop procrastinating and try and study now :)

:D I'll be a free woman the next time I post something :D


ps: Jem's snoring away next to me. He looks sooo comfortable sprawled across 2 chairs. I was gonna take a pic and post it up but my cam's at home and my phone died. Lol. So much for studying.

my 2 minutes break

I thought this was funny.. I caught one of the blue Curtin library staff guys (the geeky asian one) checking his facebook when he was doing his rounds. He just couldn't resist when he found a free computer. Lol.







I feel so lost without my phone and I get weird thoughts popping into my head like I might get assaulted or something and I wouldn't be able to call anyone...







I feel like I'm in Chinatown.. This guy and girl across the partition are talking so loudly and really really fast in viet/thai/canto... they all sound the same to me.

What a way to start 2009

The timetable for next semester's units are out. This is how we planned for it to be.

I have to wake up for freakin 8am lectures/tutorials for 3 days! What a chore! I haven't done that since... 2 sems ago (or was it 1). It was ages ago that I can't even remember. Arghhh this sem's not even done and I'm already dreading the next. But I suppose one of it's perks is that we get 2 days off, that is if we register for the classes early before everyone fills up the good slots, leaving us stuck with friday classes (like this sem!). They lied :( They specifically said registration would open at 10am or something and so I believed them. I was still in Lala Land when YH called me up at 8.30am because all the slots we planned for were gone. I'm going to stock up on coffee and stay up all night this time.

.

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Oh wait.. Coffee makes  me sleep better.... I'll figure something out. 

The clockworks in my head

1. It's the last week of uni and I'm still staring at my to-do list for Week 1 on my 'Bulletin Bored'. I realise I haven't completed a single week's worth of readings till now.

2. When will Kenny be out of the shower? I stink from cooking.

3. Should I even bother applying for the next round of Honours? My recent grades aren't exactly something to be proud of and the thought of having to write out an application on your goals and contribution to the research team just puts me off. I like the idea of graduating with Honours but... research? Ulgh.

4. Why are guys so dense? And why do they always use 'Well, I kinda maybe like you' instead of admitting it straight. So much less complicated don't you think? I seriously hope not all guys are wired that way.

5. I could really use a Gloria Jean's White Chocolate Mocha topped with whipped cream, caramel and sprinkled with chocolatey goodness right about now.

6. How do you write a CV??

7. That choreographer on stage last Sunday was hot.

8. Should I go for Errol Cock's lecture tomorrow? I'll feel bad for the old man if I don't go because an average of 15 people show up every week. But I get zilch from it when I go anyway. Tough choice...

9. I'm suppose to look for Ange's sweater... and her other... stuff.

10. I'm loving sister Chelle Tran's love heart up on 'Bulletin Bored'. It makes me feel loved.

11. It's Audrey's birthday! Happy Birthday Drey! We've been the best of friends since childhood. When we were little, we used to have regular sleepovers (me at hers, because I had boysss (and we girls say 'eew' to boys my brothers) in my house), shopping sprees (with the mum of course), little late night girly chats, clothes swap, dolling up, and all the things little girls do. She was like the sister my brothers never were. Even though we both kind of grew up apart since she moved to US, she's still my best friend and I love her to bits.

12. I need to clean my room...again. World War XXIV broke out at Room 3, 120 Leach Highway.

13. Drey and I should have a huge celebration to replace all the birthdays we've spent apart! Gahh, I really miss that girl.

14. Should I really bother with you? Cos it's taking up a lot of space in my mind and I really don't see how it's beneficial.

15. I should really memorise my speech for tomorrow! I almost forgot about it. Oh yea, meet Jas for lunch and finish off those splints.

16. Gosh, my splints are U-G-L-Y! For 2 marks each, I'll probably end up with a total of 1.5. Recap- Jon NG: Gosh, what's that ugly thing?! ... -.-"'

17. I really need to relight that fire for God and I really need to be equipped with the Word. I should've known how to answer that Jewish girl when she asked 'If God is Jesus and the Holy Spirit, and Jesus is God's son, how can he be all 3 at once?' ... All of us should've known how to answer that.

18. I miss my mummy dearest and daddy dearest.

19. I should shower now. If Flipper was alive and had a functional nose, he would say "You Schtink!" Sorry, Flipper.

20. Goodness, I'm treating words like 'functional' as layman terms now. Too much OT. Too much.

21. Ahh I did it again! I used 'layman'. I would never have used functional and layman in my daily use of words before I came into OT... I have to admit, the words ADL (Activities of Daily Living, for the uninitiated), crossed my mind when I was trying to explain the last sentence. I could really use that end of the year holidays now.

22. I found Ange's sweater... and her other... stuff.

23. Wow, I went this far and didn't think of Facebook once.. D-oh!

24. Suddenly, I really really miss you guys..
Carolllll- Quit watching your anime and go study girl. Can't believe you'll be back home even before i finish my paper. Haha. Thanks for making me feel a little part of home everytime I talk to you even though, in your blurness, I bet you wouldn't notice.

Mr. Ng- Thanks, again :) I hope you're ok. You know I'm here if you ever need to talk, right? I'm holding on to your 'make everyone cook' party (If you follow through with your take away plans, I'll personally kick you out! hahah). Oh yea, and I'm still not over you having a laksa party in my absence. Bahh

Sexyrena- Somehow, you know just the right time to lift up my spirit whenever I'm down. I know God's doing amazing things in your life and I'm still in awe at how much you've grown ever since you came to know Him. I'm very very proud of you, sexy :) hehe

Mama Papaya- I didn't even know you moved to UK and that you're my faithful reader! Lol. But yea, I wish you were in KL. So much easier to hang with you. I won't just crash at your place this time :P hahah. We should explore more redundant sites together like waitless.org lol (which, apparently, isn't there anymore :S). All the best in UK, my red faced friend!

25. Time to do some work!

5 hours to breathe

I can finally stop and take a breath .... for 5 hours. Handing in 3 major assignments in one week is not funny. This is just a very brief update from my very hectic schedule. Blogging from uni lol while waiting for Jas and Ange. We're heading to UWA's springfeast with Jem. I'm expecting lots of good food :)

Ange just called. That's my cue to go.

Cheerios!




Oh.. Why 5? Because in 5 hours, I have to start on a new assignment. DON'T take OT.

in need of play

One of the worse things about having to do endless assignments is that when everyone else is playing, you're stuck working on useless interventions for your patient.

:( I want to play cluedo (on dvd!!) with the rest of them too...

heck, I'll even take soccer on ps3 or boring old Scotland Yard.


lol Hi Jeremy! Hi Drew! You guys are sitting next to me trying to see what I'm typing. No, Jeremy, I'm not writing you a love letter. But Thank You guys for doing some major editing on my assignment!



oh, I'll post about camp when i'm free. Camp was Awesome! 

missed me?

hehe. i'm back.. for a short while.

it's been pretty hectic around here since i last posted. i really wanna blog about everything that's been happening/going to happen but i've got no time! i seriously think i need 37 hours in a day. got tons of pics to post too but my bandwidth is over the limit for this month so uploading pics are a no no according to the little brother. and i've been missing out on this week's episode of prison break, gossip girl, and one tree hill. speaking of oth, at the end of episode 2, i sat frozen on my bed for 5 whole minutes.. and there were only 3 letters in my head - OMG! lol sorry, digressed. anyhoo, i can't even check facebook oasis properly. hehe did i tell u that i've finally accepted facebook? lol. i know. evil thing. i realised there's never "just 5 minutes on facebook". sad, but true.

oh yes, and i've got sammy boy's virgin trip to aust pics to post. hahah. very surprised but very happy :) and my bday pics with lotsa lovely ppl. and jeremy's 21st toga party and who showed up at the end, esther's bday dinner, yan ying's stolen car plate (hehe funny story), things that have been going on at uni and prac.. there's always so much stuff that i wanna post up but then u find before u have time to post that up, something else happens and then another and another. then u end up with a whole bunch of very late posts..which sometimes i just go..screw it. let's move on. hahah. we'll see how it goes this time. 

ooh going back to uni, i scored a 100 on my caa test! wooooooooot!!! lol. okayyy it's actually nth to be too proud of cos they were repeated questions from the first attempt. so i just memorised the answers i got wrong. hahaha. hey it's still legit. and i'm very very proud to say i finished my social inclusion essay that's due in 3 weeks *pats self on back* i'm not a nerd. really. hahah it's just that i have 3 other major assignments due then so i'm better off getting this one out of the way. ohh and at prac last week, we got to do more than just push the residents around in their wheelchair and brush their teeth. how exciting! we got to make them paper hats for the upcoming Melbourne Cup..... -.-'" what do i study again...?
 
oh well i'll tell u bout yan ying's story since it's a non-picture related post. hehe funny story.. yan ying got to her car in uni only to find one of her car plate got stolen. she was so mad that she put her human bio book on the top of her car (while checking her car plate i presume), and drove off. LOL. just laugh along even if u think it's not funny cos i found it hilarious. hehe.

ohhh i have to tell u bout my newest addiction obsession! (can't use addiction, else i would have had to go for the computer forum thing today - don't try to understand. only fga ppl wud know). anywaysss, i'm overwhelmed by the number of online shopping blogs that's out there. i somehow received the newsfeed thing for one of them online shopping blogs and just clicked on the link out of curiosity. i haven't gone one day without checking them out since. i must admit, some of them i very lala-ish. but there r some pretty nice ones out there. reasonably priced too. i saw a couple that i really really liked but they were sold out and non-restockable. i couldn't sleep on the first night. hahah. then i found the same one on another blog. oh happy day!!! lol. and kudos to muffin for running around to get it for me.

Freedom camp is on this friday till monday!!! (that's when my bandwidth thingy restarts. what perfect timing) can't wait to see what God has in store for us!! :) my biological clock is going to be screwed. haven't woken up at 7.30 am in the longest time. ohh did i mention, for prac, i was 1 of the 4 students that got to attend prac at 4-7.30pm! sweeeeeeeeett! the rest of them had 7-11am shifts. hahah. okayy i think i mentioned that before. nvm. 

how's that for a very long post to make up for my temporary hiatus? it's sleepy time. 5 more weeks till the end of uni... i think. i should really check that out. goodnight!

ps: to mummy and daddy, don't worry. i'm not squandering my money away. they'r in safe hands :) miss u! love u!

i'll be back.

"BLOG!"

hehe. sorry for the lack of updates. thanks to a certain someone, this past 2 weeks has been crazy. and now i need to catch up on all my lectures, classes, assignments and presentations. so i Will blog.. soon-ish. with pictures to add some colour to ur day :) 

here's one of ELMO on my birthday cake and my new phone :)

oh..and Happy Birthday to all September babies! special shoutout to Sexyrena whom i miss and love and is extremely proud of :)  (yes, i promised i'll update soon)




i'm in pain... but i've never been happier :P 

argh facebook

i just ignored 1659 applications.

that's how often i check facebook.

btw, this is pretty interesting and a bit freaky in some weird way. Felicia, a uni friend, googled 'slide board transfer' and my blog came up.

she told me thru facebook :) hi felicia! all the best in ur prac exam! (if u still read this)

McDreamy of Curtin

Back in 1st year, my friends and I would drool over our Human Bio lecturer - Damien Hewitt. too bad he wasn't our tutor. we would have learnt so much more. hahah. it's true tho. aside from being one of the hottest the hottest lecturer, he was also the most entertaining. the rest were just ancient. so yea, we attended ALL his lectures even tho they were mid-afternoon in the summer. and we would go "oooh oooh. look he's here." LOL. news about McDreamy spreads like wild fire.. when he shaved his head, how ppl saw him shopping with his wife and 2 kids (which crushed half of human bio students' hopes and dreams..the other half being male). oh yea, and out of all the other human bio lecturers, his lectures are on Sex. how convenient. 

i have a point in all this, ok. just bare with me. so about 10 mins ago, Michelle msged me (when she's suppose to be studying ergo!)

M says:
omg amy look at this

M says:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16692278221

ღ royalty ღ says:
what?!

roflmao. looks like there are more hardcore fans out there than you know.

need a break from studying/working?

LOL. Now stop procrastinating, you lazy bum!

*giggles*

OTs?!

this coversation has happened countless times it's become so predictable.

somenewstranger/someonewhodoesntknowwhatimstudyingyet: what r u studying at the moment?

me: occupational therapy

(wait for it....)

somenewstranger/someonewhodoesntknowwhatimstudyingyet:  WHAT'S THAT?!?

lol. then i go into a whole long definition of what OTs do.. bleh. i shud just record it and play it everytime i'm being asked that. saves a whole lot of saliva and time. lol

i wiki-ed this. hahah

OT- the "use of productive or creative activity in the treatment or rehabilitation of physically or emotionally disabled people"

bet these r just words to u. cos it is to me. hahah. i'll just leave u with pictures of us practicing for our phys rehab prac exam (even tho it's probably 2% of what OTs do) so u'll understand a little bit better... and so ppl might stop asking me what OTs do!

Lai San pretending to be an amputee client



me teaching 'Mrs. White' what to do in case she falls down again. (poor woman actually spends few days on the floor cos she has noone to help her! and probably cos she doesnt dare to get up cos of her visual impairment)



Rui, as an amputee, performing a slideboard transfer from bed to wheelchair



lol. hoist transfer nanny yi huey as a C3 SCI client hanging really uncomfortably in a sling cos she supposedly only has neck control.



lol our attempt to transfer her to the wheelchair was soo bad, she ended up sitting like this. God, i hope we don't fail. hahah.

teaching 'Dennis' how to do his toileting cos he has some pulmonary thing n fatigues really easily. lol don't get any ideas... she was gonna turn around and sit.. i just caught her in the wrong position.

meh. that's it. i shall take more pictures next time.

at least u have the slightest idea what it's about now.. hahah. i hope. it's fun. at times. not all the time. but still.

yea it has its perks :)

D day has finally arrived!

after 1943783 assignments and presentations, i can finally call myself a free woman! no more late night sleeps nights working on intervention strategies for C7 SCI clients, who breaches which section of what act due to improper manutention, how to apply the Kawa model to someone with anxiety attacks, and definitely no more Sociological Imagination Template.

OH, THE JOY!

...exams? what exams??

ladeedum. now i can play mahjong without a paper in one hand, highlighter in the other, computer beside me, and people going 'stop doing ur work n throw the tile already!' Lol.

Had TRIPLE Butter Explosion popcorn and won a game of MJ just then. feeling a wee bit guilty cos i didn't work it off at pump class today.. nor last week.. hehe. just a wee bit. 

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lol. congratulations balloon from jeremy. cute-ness!

traffic light

one of the questions that we were suppose to answer during intro session last combine Enrich was "winter/summer?"

nyeh. neither.

the pretty fusion of red, yellow and green autumn leaves just gives me a fuzzy feeling inside. nanny yi huey n i have been meaning to take a picture of the lovely trees and creepers around uni last year..but we never really got around to it. hahah. till a year later :) 

pictures grabbed from Cindy

 

loving autumn :)

on another note, 158347 assignments down, 1 presentation and 1 major ergo assignment to go. in 84 hours and 49 minutes, I'll be a free woman! Bring out the balloons and Congratulate me!

so much to do, so little time

cliché but true.
i've got 3 presentations, 3 tests, and 4 major assignments due. no time to blog. just in case u'r sick of reading my last post over and over again everytime u open up this page, here's a little sth for u to giggle at. hehe



imposter and adrian at his 24th

Kiasu-ness to the max!

Curtin Career Fair was on today

I morphed into a Singaporean :D happy times.. lol

By the end of it,
Ange - was rather horrified by how Singaporean I can be but reluctantly accepted me for that and even more reluctantly allowed me to continue...

Nanny - was very proud of me morphing into one of 'them'. i look up to her as a role model in kiasu-ness now.

Elaine - doesn't know where to hide her face.

Jen - ... was just laughing away.

ps: i learnt some new words today over lunch..

• (something) + fart = shart
• poo + pee = poe

Easter week long break!

Finally! A well-deserved break! 1 assignment, 1 presentation and 1 poster down within 4 weeks of starting uni... plenty more to go =S and lots of blogging to catch up on as well. more posts and pictures coming your way as soon as I upload them onto the comp (Adrian! card reader!). meanwhile, I'll leave u to ogle at 'my' CDHID poster. lol. toodles!

"I like you.. I like the things you do.."  ;)

thank you!

Narcoleptic

i fell asleep in class today.. again!
i could hardly keep my eyes open during the 2nd half of Contextual tute.
i was just gonna rest my head on the table for a minute..
the tutor probly knew! cos i didn't even look up when she was right in front of me.. well i moved a little when i heard her walking closer just so she wouldn't think i was sleeping..but i don't think it was convincing enuf.
my bloodshot eyes probly gave it away anyway
all my friends noticed n were laughing bout it after class.. =S
the whole class probly knew.
if i didn't die from narcolepsy i'd probly die from embarassment.
funny thing is everytime i fall asleep in tutes or lectures, the second it ends i'll be wide awake n ready to go..
i need invisible toothpicks to prop my eyes open the next time.

there goes my participation marks..