Tuesday, May 25, 2010
So today's my 20th birthday. My age now begins with a 2 instead of a 1, signalling that I'm no longer as young as I'd like to be. I got pretty depressed on my 19th birthday, because you're still a teenager up to 18, I think? I guess I just have to accept it...and then dread turning 21! Labels: college, family, friends, university
So, I had a pretty great day today. I received a birthday sms from Jiejie at about 8am, and then Mummy called about 10 minutes later to wish me as well! Not to belittle all the other wishes, but these were the ones that mattered the most to me.
Subsequently, I got a lot of wishes from my fellow med students, college people etc. It did kind of make me feel a bit special!
Another good thing is that I only had 3 hours of class today! If my birthday had been yesterday - 7 hours of class - it would have been kind of sad. As it is, I went to have a Chinese lunch with Christabel and Audrey, which was fun. And they bought me a slice of cheesecake - so sweet of them!
Afterwards I went to Sze Hui's house to kind of celebrate, and even though she didn't have time to make a cake (not that I expected her to!), she managed to whip out 12 tiny cupcakes and put them together with a candle! And I've been invited to her daughter's birthday party too!
Then I returned to find my room decorated prettily by 2AB group members, after which they had a cake that Stanley baked, and two birthday cards!
I'm currently trying to respond to the mass of Facebook birthday wishes that people have posted on my wall. I suppose it won't be finished by tonight, though.
Even though I'd have loved to spend my birthday with my family, I guess living here and having so many new friends just multiplied all the well-wishes that I received, and it really made me happy!
I'm really thankful to God for the past 20 years of my life, in which He has given me so many things that I don't deserve, and always protected me and loved me. I hope that I can become more mature and wise as I continue to grow wholly as a Christian.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
The weather's been getting colder, probably due to the continuous rain, and sometimes we can breathe out warmly and see the air!
I spent time with the lovely freshers from 2CD playing Billionaire and Jungle Speed. Many thanks to them for inviting me to play with them. Also, Happy Birthday to Perry! I'm so jealous of him for the pillow he got from Fluff's mum!
My FOCUS Bible Study group had dinner at Chong Hing with another group called M&Ms after church just now, and at the end they brought a marble cheesecake with 2 candles on it to celebrate my upcoming birthday! I was really happy!
Actually we had homestudy on Friday night at Weibin's house, which was when they were writing on my birthday card. Our guest member Lester said that he was watching them write it before I'd arrived. Then when we did a round of introductions and I said my name, he immediately turned to Weibin to say, "Oh, so she's the one you guys were writing the card for!" Of course he was sitting far away, so I didn't hear him.
Then during dinner that night apparently Kwong Ming said something like, "aren't we celebrating Sixuan's birthday?" But I didn't hear him even though he was RIGHT BESIDE ME (so blur, right), and then Adeline looked at him and was like, "You say it a bit louder, can?" LOL.
I returned to college with the rest of my cake, and then it was time for group supper. We had it in the courtyard for Pedro's suprise proposal from Nicola, and it was really beautiful with everyone's participation and all the tealight candles and the singing!
Saturday, May 1, 2010
I kept meaning to blog, but always forgot when I actually had time to do so. Labels: college, university
I had an exam on Tuesday, signalling the end of the Foundations course I've been in for the past 8 weeks, i.e. Teaching Period 1. It was harder than everyone thought it would be. And to think the lecturers made it seem like it was going to be so easy, suggesting that we might finish it in 2/3 the allocated time, and, I quote, that "it takes real talent to fail".
The exam was at the racecourse next to the school, and the day before the exam I dragged Christabel with me to see how long it would take us to walk there, and which of 2 routes was faster. The walk itself was very pleasant, due to the weather, which is gradually getting colder.
I went out with some of the Singaporeans after our exam (coincidentally turning out to be all Christians, lol) for a dim sum lunch, and promptly felt guilty for spending so much money.
On Wednesday, we all had our first visit to our assigned hospitals, which was more of an orientation than anything. And mine was at Bankstown, even though my actual venue in the coming weeks will be Liverpool. I'm glad I had quite a few friends going with me! We even played cards on the train, and only saw that we'd reached our station just as the train pulled up into it!
After a 40 minute introduction by a doctor, we were taken around in small groups by older medical students to see certain wards and such. Apparently people in other hospitals didn't get to do that!
But it kind of felt like a waste of time, because it took about 1 hour and 45 minutes to get there, but we only spent about 1 & 1/2 hours there, before taking the same amount of time to get back.
Then on Thursday we had our last SG session as SG-A4, because for the next term we'll be split half-half according to our hospital allocations and mixing with the 2nd year students. It's pretty sad because I do like our SG (we even have a Facebook group), and don't know if we'll be put together again. We went through exam answers without our papers, and ate lots of yummy food.
On Friday, we had practice at NCV for our Dialogue Night for three songs, after which I went to the library to use the Internet, but got evacuated due to goodness knows what, then went to the Motor Registry to get a NSW Photo Card. My cousin kindly invited me to her house for dinner again. I think I made her baby cry - he doesn't like me!
I went to Bondi Junction with Cub today to help someone get art stuff, as well as to see to a little shopping, because she didn't really know how to get there. It was fun, but we both agreed that the shopping loses its excitement after spending too long doing it.
I just spent some time watching The Prestige with two of my groupmates, and I must say that the plot is pretty cool!
Our College has been busy preparing for the play that is being performed next week. I've helped out a bit with painting the set and doing backstage stuff - it's really fun! It's a play about a play, and after watching the first five minutes of their rehearsal I got pretty confused.
That's pretty much it for this week. I will try to update more often, I guess. If anyone's reading this at all.
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