exams over...one semester done...happy HOLIDAYS!!!

Time flies! It's really quite unnoticeable that one semester has officially ended. It's been a long, long one...although it was actually just more or less 3 months. It was a lot of hard work, long days, and late nights which ended up with the 4 huge files on my desk now. Now that they have all been examined in the papers, it's a great relief.

The OSCE just now was tough, as expected. I didn't complete my wound cleaning, which was pretty much in a mess. And I can't believe I was rushing through the question on lesion when I could have better my answer if I did structure it well enough. The worst was the history taking for the patient with palpitations. Gosh! I was just out of ideas on what to ask. Obviously, I need more improvement in the future. Once again, learning from mistakes...

Oh well, now that exam is over, all I can do is pray for my results to turn out well. Since exam is already history, I'll just put that at the back of my head and I shall really need to rest and relax to revitalise myself for the next semester. This, I guess is one of my concept in what Mr Nyiau would call the 'Art of War'.

I've got pretty much an overview of what I'm actually going to do until 9th January. Hmmm...most importantly, I need TENNIS! Tina's back and we've promised to blast, blast and blast! Oh yeah, I'll do some yoga, swimming, gym and badminton too. My resolution for this holiday: to be darker, fitter, tone up, lose some weight and not forgetting working on my SSM. I haven't even started on anything for SSM. I really need to work hard at it. I guess it'll take a huge part of the holiday...I need to visit my assigned patient also. Seems like not much time to rest huh? Hehe...that's what I get as a medical student. But it's all worth it =]

Actually, I just came back from Naz's open house. It was great meeting Naz, Faiq, Sulhi and Diing. Haven't seen them since July. We had a long, nice talk with Auntie and Uncle as well. It's great catching up with everybody. I guess the next time would be when they're working in KB...maybe in like 2 weeks' time.

Right now, I feel pretty much drained. I'm very tired but at the same time excited that the holiday has officially begun! I need to pay back my sleeping hours now and head back to KB tomorrow...

Good night!

FOUR down, ONE more to go!

So glad that the theory part of Health Science is over. Paper 1 was on Monday and yesterday, I had my Paper 2. One word to describe them all: TOUGH!

I don't think I can do well this time. I've worked like a week for the 2 papers, but I guess it takes more experience to do the exam flawlessly on first attempt. No time for checking and all...Exam tactic to learn for next time. I also missed out too much details which I thought was not that important. Numbers, risks, drug names...and the list goes on...

Just hope I have luck with me this time, although having realised that I've made a whole lot of mistakes especially in Paper 1. Nevertheless, on a positive note, I'll take this as a lesson for the future. It's the first semester; so I shall learn what I've not done that well. I believe in learning it the hard way.

One more paper this Saturday. It's the OSCE! This time we'll have 15 stations to go through. It should be tough. I really need to practise and better myself the whole day tomorrow. Oh well, I hope I can do well in this and make up for Papers 1 and 2. Wish me luck!

I've actually just came back from IM. Practised some patient care stuffs with Sonia, Sarah and Dila. It was really helpful and I hope it's a good start to make me begin revising my Patient Care skills. On my way back, the street lights were all off from the Tungku Link road until the fly-over. The black-out was quite scary really, especially on the wet road after the heavy downpour. Glad that the lights starting from the Gadong area were on.

Hmmm...Can't wait for exams to be over. I'm going to play lots of tennis for the whole month! Hopefully, I can lose some weight and of course become fitter before next semester. I'm looking forward to meeting with everyone too. Those who were supposed to come back are mostly back. And although all of us are in UBD, we seldom meet, really...hope to meet up and catch up with all my friends =]

That's all for now...It's Naz's open house on Saturday and I'm excited to see the Sydney gang again. A lot of catching up to do! And yup, Uncle Chee's open house on Sunday. Lots of good eating times...Hehe.

Cheers...