life begun ever since i was born...or has it jst started??!??!

damn! u'd think dat since i hv NO labs dis wk i'd b all cruisy n everything... i really need a wake up call! 2 bad i don't hv an alarm when i need it most.

monday i had 2 go n give amanda all dat contracts n stuff as u do so dat i'm officially working. den, since i had nothing 2 do til 1:00, i sat down n had a coffee n made notes like i neva had b4 (literally...u don't know how scary it is wen i left 2 find out dat da originally blank white A4 paper was crammed up wif these blue lines dat made themselves into words...) den quickly left for Chem120 n saw Sophie there, n met John. da lecture for chem 120...let's jst say dat i'v found a cure for insomnia. den another hour break b4 i had another class... jst ran up n down da library trying 2 find sum bks, n found sum of dem. then it was biosci n medsci... man i love these lectures! da lecturers make everything sound so interesting evn if da truth was dat u had all these horrible names 2 rememba!

tuesday was more of da same wifout dat coffee part. i spent da time running up n down trying 2 find bks again, n actually found dem all dis time (YES! n she scores!) oh, n dey had 2 check our biosci course manuals bcoz ppl hv b going 2 different streams n dey were complaining about how sum streams get full n others r semi-full. well, if u had thought better, mayb u could've done what u did wif chem120 n actually made da lecture available in 2 rooms!!! who tld u 2 not do dat since so many other ppl wanted dat stream??? jst as i was leaving uni, i saw nikki (n her boyfriend) again. dey look so good 2gether. neway, i tld her 2 c me at work n all dat. she lend me her iPod so i could listen 2 sum songs her boyfriend composed. dey sound really nice. i jst wish i could copy it. on, n at chem120, john left da lecture suddenly coz he wasn't feeling well. i asked sophie if he was ok, n she sed he was fine.

wednesday was SO GOOD. i only had chem210 n i asked my lecturer how 2 do da lab n he cleared things up pretty nicely. i still struggle a bit, but hey, at least now i hv an idea~!!! then i had til 12:00 b4 i went 2 phil105, so i went around checking emails n things. phil105 was pretty kewl. ok, more lame jokes, but i had fun.
den i saw daria... i swear i was so lost at da time tho. she yelled my name about 5 times b4 i actually shoke my head n looked at her, n was like, 'Daria!!!' my head must've been vacuumed or something. we jst kinda stood there at the stair of da library n chatted... come 2 think of it, i can't evn rememba what we chatted about.
at about 2:00, i went 2 work evn tho i was supposed 2 start at 5:00. it's not like nebody mind (aside frm my parents, dat is, but dey so don't count!). luke, da team leader 4 da day, was such a sweetheart! he explained *everything* evn if it was sumthing i should know already n stuff. nikki came 2 visit me a bit later, n he didn't evn mind dat i was chatting wif her half da time (of course, we weren't really all dat busy n stuff).

n thursday was pretty kewl 2. amanda rang me 2 say dat there was sumthing wrong wif da account number i gave her, so i went 2 da cafe n fix it up. saw sam n everyone else there. i had a brownie (it was really nice. if nebody want me 2 recommend sumthing, da brownie's IT!!!) n i headed back 2 study. later, when i had finished my brownie n was *STILL* writing down notes, Elly brought me a hot chocolate, evn tho i didn't evn ask 4 one. so there i was sitting in a corner drinking a hot choc n studying. it was really nice.
chem120, n still no john. once again, i asked sophie if he needed ne notes n things, but she didn't know coz she hasn't seen him either. n 4 medsci we switched lecturers. da new lecturer is such a funny guy.

friday... ah finally. da school wk's ended. which was great 4 me coz despite da lack of events (i'm sure we've all noticed how every single one of my entry seem 2 say da same thing :P), i was really exhausted. i'd fall asleep in da lectures if i didn't know i hv 2 make up 4 it later which would b worse.

n den dere's 2day. now 2day wasn't very interesting (but then, none of da days were, so what am i talking about?) i woke up at 9:00, had a shower, went 2 work, n met jess n tai. tai jst began work a wk b4 me, n jess has been working 4 eons. jess wasn't like da rest of da team leader tho. she assumed i know a lot n helps me when i ask. she also gave me Sam's band so i could run da till. she n elly kept an eye on me still, tho, n i was very glad coz 2day was INSANE. it was evn worse dan last wk! we had a whole long line n evn wif me n tai we didn't evn hv time 2 clean da tables, n more than five ppl had 2 wait fifteen minutes for their food n stuff... i think at the end of da day, it went pretty well tho, coz most of da ppl seem 2 c dat we were busy. i was so relieved when i left...until i walked out n realised i left my apron there -_-;;; once again, i've proved myself 2 b an absent-mind idiotic klutz.

now...highlights at lectures... i can't rememba most of them nowadays...but i know there r sum...

medsci lecturer Associate Professor Roger Booth introducing us 2 da topic - fight-or-flight response n da alarm response - , starting wif da brain. he gave us da slide of Woody Allen n da quote 'The brain is my second favourite organ...' then Roger added, 'I think that's why his hand's in his pocket.'
then trying 2 give us an example of alarm response: 'that's the same reaction you'd experience if i say *claps* we're gonna have a test now!' n da relaxation response: 'think of a 2 o'clock lecture after a big lunch and what you want to do (n our lecture was at 4:00!!)'
n my favourite...
talking about fight-or-flight response, then saying he's read a book by Robert Sapolsky that talks about it.
'Robert S. talked about dis response in terms of the four F's:
-Fight
-Flight
-Fright
-Sex'
*little bit of chuckle from da class*
'it *is* friday afternoon...'
then about 30 secs later, u hear these ppl talking n laughing
'i tld u, it is friday afternoon...'
yup, who would've thought a bunch of PRE-MED students would b so slow ^^ !!!!!


he was talking about da

n jst in case i get severe amnesia...

about da brain...
sulcus (pl sulci. pronounced sul-see) r like da ridges n while da gyrus (pl gyri. pronounced jai-ree) r da stuff u can actually poke, da flabby bits. dat's da non-scientific, non techinical way (ie my way) of putting it!!!
n da four parts of the brain r frontal, occipital, parietal, n TEMPERAL. NEVER EVER 4GET TEMPERAL!

am i insane??

y da hell did i choose 2 put all da labs in da 1st wk? as if it wasn't enough 2 b doing 5 courses. ok, so one of dem's philosophy n there's only 2 lessons a wk. but hey, 2 make up 4 dat i'm doing a stage 2 course, so i ain't slacking, if dat's wat nebody thinks, my folks included. here, in da wide wide world of cyber space where nobody's here 2 hear me scream n shout, i'm happy 2 say wateva i want wifout consequences, n i'm happy. actually, it's more than dat. hell, i'm in paradise!
neway, gettin' back on track tho...

turns out dat da word in da rat disection manual wasn't shining. it was glistening. rite. there was no 'glistening' of ne sort in da rat's body. as one of da girls in da lab put it 'u can take everything out n chuck it back in n it won't b ne different'. DAMN RIGHT! if my rat came back 2 life, all it'd compain about was dat its tongue got cut off (haha, shame, jst coz dey practically spend there life eating... actually, i'd feel sorry 4 it...but not gonna speculate about it coz it's a damn DEAD rat!) coz i did it by accident. come 2 think of it, if it came back 2 life i'd yelled at it 2 just it hadn't finished pooping b4 it died... not dat nebody need 2 know dat...

stg 2 chem lab was da most boring experience eva. i had no idea wat dey were talking about, n da lab was dead boring. calculations n waiting... n dey don't evn bother explaining exactly what ur suppose 2 do. i mean, hello, jst bcause it's second years doesn't mean dat we know everything! i mean, i understood da lectures, but da lab was insane. plus, u expect us 2 know what is going on when we only got da lab manual wif all da instructions on it FIVE MINUTES AGO?!?!? r u crazy?

den comes bio lab on wednesday. my lab partner n da pair sitting across us were all guys. on top of that, dey've all done a biosci courses in da 1st sem. n da pair r biomed students, n my lab partner lives in da same hostel as one of dem, so i was jst an alien landing on earth... but at least dey were all being really nice n helped me out n all when i was being an idiot. nothing much happened at da lab coz u jst sit there n wait 4 da machine 2 give u sum values n u plot graphs. d only thin i would say about it is dat i wish i could hv it on friday instead coz 5:00 is 2 late 4 me 2 b evn in da mood 2 study afta 3 hrs of lab.
oh!!! n my first philosophy class. philosophy's a total whack! da jokes were dry, but it's still fun. at least it means u can spend time 2 roll ur eyes n all. i think by d end of the course my eyes r gonna fall out coz i've rolled dem 2 often n da muscle holding dem r gonna b dead.

thursday: chem120. now, chem120 was hell of a lot better than chem210 (don't get them mixed up now. chem120 is a stg one course i.e first year. chem210 is a stg 2 course). 4 one, i had da sweetest 'lab partner' (not really a partner coz u don't need a partner 4 da lab, at least, not da lab dat we jst did) who didn't complain when i talked 2 much or kept asking her questions dat i'm supposed 2 know. plus, it was titrations n i LOVED titrations. u get 2 use da burette n i've always been precise n accurate wif these sorta things. n there's nothing more fun than swirling dat flask n jst waiting wif anticipation 2 c dat colour change.

n friday was da first day wif NO LABS! yes! it would've been such a nice day if i wasn't 2 busy running around trying 2 get my hands on darn textbooks! n afta all dat effort i've only got TWO out of my five, one of which i gotta return on monday! now usually i'd b fine wif monday, but i gotta work da WHOLE DAY on sunday! there's jst no time 2 study 2morrow... *sigh*

speaking of work... thrusday was my first day of work n i think i must've been knocked in da head some time b4 dat coz i kept 4getting da stuff dey told me. luckily, sam was a really nice person n she kept showing me all these stuff evn tho she was still kinda sick n everything. n closing down was really tiring, evn tho there wasn't really much 2 do. it was jst putting all da food in da fridge n wiping tables n dishes clean n sweeping da floor...all dat stuff u do at home neway.

oh!!! n i saw nikki on wednesday! i hvn't seen her in months. i ran in2 her as i was leaving phil105 on wednesday. it's so nice jst 2 b able 2 c her. she doesn't seem 2 hv changed much, still very bubbly n everything.

AAAHHHHHH!! i'm running out of time 2 b in my cyber-space paradise...guess i gotta wait til nxt wkend...

ooh ooh, i almost 4got...

medsci142 lab... is all da way in medschoo, which is,like, opposite auckland hospital! lucky i didn't hv a class jst b4 it! i had chem210 8:00 - 9:00, then, coz i didn't know where da lab was, i ran 2 da science center n dey helped me out. den i scooted upstairs 2 find da course co-ordinator 2 ask y i couldn't take chem230, n dey sed because there's only one class n it clashed wif chem120 (damn them! i would've switch phil105 for chem230 neday if i could fit it in my timetable!). by then i had 45 minutes 2 spare, n i realised i hv 2 get 2 medschool, so i pace there n found out u need n access card... n had 2 pay $10 4 dat access card... hmph. neway, by da time lab finished, i had 15 minutes 2 pace (actually, i ran 1/4 of day way) all da way back 2 da city campus, n was JUST IN TIME for chem120. i had 2 sit in da dingy MedChem lecture theatre jst coz da LargeChem theatre was full... but i suppose it had 2 b sumbody sitting there... plus, i didn't hv 2 sit there again for da rest of da wk so i'm happy =) .

NOW I REALLY HAVE 2 GO!

la di da di da

dunno how i got it, but i've started saying dat since da start of da yr n now it's stuck. it's not blah blah blah nemore, it's la di da di da. perhaps i subconsciously decided dat i need sum practice in singing. my bro did tell me so when i tried 2 sing 'somethig stupid'. he sed i sounded like i was praying monotonously.
neway...
i still hvn't found where my MedSci142 lab is, but i sincerely hope dey'll 4give me if i arrive late or sumthing. aside frm not being able 2 find da location of lab, there's actually another reason y i mite b late 2 da lab. we're disecting a mouse. or a rat. i'm pretty sure it's mouse. it's usually fine wif me, but da lab bk makes it so strangely gruesome. i mean, since when hv u heard sum1 describe an interstine as, i don't know, shiny or words 2 dat effect (i can't rememba da exact wording - i hvn't got it wif me - so bare wif me 4 da vagueness. if nebody's actually interested, feel free 2 ask!). so...i don't know whether 2 look 4ward for 3 hrs of laughing n meeting my lab partner (i'm pretty sure we'r gonna get partners. i've always had partners in labs, n i'm really fond of all of them) or looking miserable n disgusted.
i jst wish AU would hurry up wif sorting da classes out n everything... i *need* 2 know whether i'm taking chem 230 or not so i can at least b prepared if i end up taking 6 courses or not! plus, i need 2 get bks n tell StudyLink 2 pay my course fees... there's no way i'm dealing wif StudyLink trouble again!!!
n OMG! evn tho i'm not doing it i actually got in2 Engineering! AHHHHH!!! ME, da idiot who was jst about 2 send n email n sed sumthing like 'i'll ring u later' when da ph was rite beside me!! n da good old 35/5=35... ok ok, u'r all sick of me repeating it...but it's so darn stupid!
2morrow's sunday. one more day n i'll b back at uni. i wonder if i'm ready.
uh oh, gotta scoot. how da hell did my life suddenly get so busy?!?!??!?!?!

at the end of the map...

here there be monsters...
monsters. there'r all sorts of monsters in da world. there r da hairy slimy monsters under da bed, da freaky ppl u meet at da most random places (evn at skewl...nowhere's safe) n then there'r monsters like really really horrible looking words n numbers n stuff, like gyrus n sulcus... n i hv 2 deal wif dem if i wanna pass dis sem. *sigh* learning vocab is fine wif me, but there's at least 3 dozen of dem, all pointing 2 sum random part of da brain, all in one lecture... can't say i like dat. ah well...it'd hv 2 cum sooner or later. after all, it's medicine. u gotta know about da brain...
but there are more important stuff at hand in order 2 pass this sem. 4 one, MedSci lab starts on monday n i hv no idea where it is...AHHHHHHHH!!!! fortunately, i hv one hour of spare time btween my first class n the medsci lab. let's hope i manage!!!
slept at around 2 yesterday n woke up at 8 dis morning. was hazy as hell all day (but at least i managed 2 rememba what gyri n sulci r!!!), slept 4 about 20 min an hr ago n rite now i'm still hazy as hell.
still can't believe i had 2 spend $12 2 watch pirate's of the caribbean 2... *sigh*

darn cinemas...

it's jst not rite dat it should cost so much 2 c 1 darn movie. ok, pirates of the caribbean 2 was a kewl movie, but i still dislike da fact dat it costed $12.50.
'nough sed about da price tho. da movie - i still reckon it was at most funny. it had nothing on the 1st one.
da day jst seemed kinda empty sumhow. i missed my friends, but while watching a movie there really isn't much time 2 chat. i suppose i should b grateful i jst got 2 c them at all. gotta count my blessing every day since i feel i hv so little. like i'm glad dat i got tessa's email, n dat i got 2 spend time 2 write on the blog (evn if it's just 2 moan like i always do).
well, i would write more, but as i'm being rushed here...
oh! n i think my story's finally coming along.
well, dat's dat 4 day (wif da time i've got neway)

After all this fumbling around (of course, nobody actually knows how much 'fumbling around' I really did), the blog doesn't look all that different. In fact, it probably looks worse than the orignial template. But then again, I've never been good with colours, so I suppose people will spare me if they saw this blog. I doubt anybody would though... it's just another blog amongst many others.
Funny how I didn't type like I usually do on the net, with all the right capital letters and full stops and everything spelt right... maybe I'm just paranoid, which totally contradicts my doubt that anybody would visit this blog.
I wonder how often people contradict themselves. I contradict myself all the time (but without realising it until five minutes later when I think about what I said).
Somehow, I stopped moaning. Strange huh? I moan to everyone whenever, whereever, and yet, right now when I'm posting on this blog, which is basically my diary, I stop moaning. Goes to show how much attention just moaning can get you.
Darn it! Have to leave already? I've only just posted, what, three (well, four including this one) paragraphs. What a way to start...