bonjour brightside

my exams are over! hoorahhh! although i say that half-heartedly, because i don’t actually feel liberated, in fact i’m rather stressed because i don’t have a good feeling about how my papers went….. but in any case i’m just relieved.

it’s been 36 long and gruelling weeks of rotations and lectures, of which 18 weeks (paeds and women’s) were absolutely fantastic(!!!!) and the other 18 weeks were…for lack of a better word, uninspiring. psych was interesting, but i don’t see myself doing that in the long term (or i may be wrong.) but in general it’s been fantastic, i really am glad for the opportunity to see and do so much, but right now i’m feeling burnt out and absolutely spent.  so i’m very very happy that this long awaited break is FINALLY here and i’m flying home REAL SOON to spend the next 1.5 months with my family and friends!!

oh and just before i was about to leave the house for my last exam i saw this:

everything will be okay

in the end.

if it’s not okay,

it’s not the end.

i really like it! simple logic makes for good comfort!

and i watched Waitress today, i’d always wanted to watch it after seeing the poster in 2007:

YES pies! omg so many pies! i remembered that i wanted to watch it and so i stopped putting it on hold and finally got down to seeing it. it’s about Jenna, a waitress who makes lots of pies with strange names, like “I Don’t Want Earl’s Baby” Pie (quiche of egg and brie cheese with a smoked ham center), “Kick In The Pants” Pie (cinnamon spice custard), “Baby Screaming It’s Head Off In The Middle Of The Night And Ruining My Life” Pie (new york style cheesecake, brandy brushed, pecans and nutmeg) oooh speaking of pecans i had a very very tasty pecan maple pie the other day, it was so good, i can still remember exactly how it tasted

anyway the movie was relatively enjoyable, it was interesting and quirky and now i can’t stop thinking of banoffee pie

omg. my mom has facebook. !!!! you have to excuse my blatant shock because as far as i know my mom doesn’t even know how to check her hotmail account.

facebook for parents = the newest way to spy on your kids.

SRSLY

we had group osce practice today, and my osce partner randomly said ‘holler atcha boy’ to someone else and i immediately iit up and exclaimed ‘oooh i know where that came from!’ i love the phrase, it’s so catchy hahaha. yes and if you know where that came from then we share a bond. holler atcha boy!

anyway exams have officially begun, i am one down and two more to go… major ones too. :s certainly sucks that everyone else is done and having fun in the sun, while i tear my hair out and study myself silly. even my brother is squeezing in weekend escapades to france and belgium on top of juggling a new school term!! oh well. i shall not whine further. c’est la vie! i’ve given it all i can, given up so much for this…. so what’s a little more to give? i am nearly there. nearly nearly there!!!

p.s. i can’t wait to go home i miss you all soooo much. family + friends = my sustenance for exam madness.   LOVE xxx

H: I saw your ‘favorite’ friend today- S. aka my michelle 0bama. Nah i was cold for you, cuz i was like ‘wot a ho!’

E: Don’t be hating! But thanks though, you know i love you for that UGH I’ve been sick the whole day!! I always fall ill during exam time

H: You need my powers. you know i shoot IgM out from my eyes and IgA from my hands? I’ll save you!

yeah sometimes i need some saving……. like now. maybe, you’re gonna be the one who saves meeee

i’m sitting in my chair vegetating. trying so so so hard to absorb general practice stuff but its.soooo.hard. i dislike gp. everything is so vague, so uncertain, and so mundane. i like psych a lot better, although some people think it’s esoteric. but i like esoteric things. anyway, if you thought tommy emmanuel was a guitar prodigy for teaching himself how to play the guitar at age 12, then you must must must watch this video of an 11 year old korean boy. he is absolutely gobsmackingly fantastic. and you don’t have to know guitar to appreciate the beauty of his music, so click on it

oh and here’s another video unrelated to guitar-playing. it’s about gait abnormalities. i remember in first year, kai and i sat through this lecture where we watched an hour-long video on gait- and we laughed so hard we cried. yes we cried (or at least i know i did). my tummy was aching and tears were rolling down my cheeks. i am terribly sorry that i find it so amusing but i just can’t stop myself from giggling. ugh. i dunno why i find all these things funny (when it’s not supposed to be funny), it would be so awful if i burst out laughing while examining a patient. (p.s. my favorite is the scissor gait).

ok sooo need to study. 20 more days guyzzz