the first week of school for 2oo9 is over! and i survived.
well technically it didn't take much to survive through this week, because it was pretty slack for us SP students.
in case you're wondering, SP stands of Spirit of the Phoenix.
its a 'cool' term the school uses to refer to us lovely bunch of, dare i say it, retainees.
haha ahwell.
first day! everyone was so surprised to see me in school.
quite a couple even thought i had already left for aussie!
hahah as if i'd leave without fanfare. :P
anyway it was great to see everyone again, i missed them!
the first day was just listening to teachers yakyakyak in LT4, and it was pretty boring.
but second day onwards we had CIP!
i belonged to the group going to IMH.
rai was in my group, yay! poor tiff was by herself in another group haha.
spent the remaining days of the week in IMH doing gardening, although i did batik on tuesday.
managed to interact with some of the outpatients in the Occupational Therapy ward.
it was really an eye-opening experience, getting to talk to them.
i found out that they're pretty normal, nothing too extreme.
its such a pity that the social stigma is attached so strongly to them just because they're patients there.
but yeah, i enjoyed my time there.

went for training on wednesday, with tiff and rai!
i had the truest intension of going running and doing my own PT, but somehow i ended up doing what i normally did at trainings - sit around and talk.
but i had fun in the process...
took pictures with amir and the girls, hahah amir is such a joke.
i'm gonna miss him.
edmond was spectacular, within the first 5 minutes of talking to him, the both of us were in stitches from laughing.
ahhh it felt good to see the team again.
left after debrief, bought bubble tea (yay!) and went to the playground to chat and cam whore, tiff, rai, fang and i!
we spent more than an hour there, and took over 200 pictures!
haha it was crazy, but awesome.

had cervical cancer vaccination on thursday, so didn't go to school.
before that my gynae aunt did a routine check-up for me and the experience for a first-timer like me was scary.
haha imagine having a nurse strip you and the gynae examine you.
i was positively freaking out.
luckily she was my aunt, i can't imagine going to a complete stranger! OMG.
well after that i had my jab, and it slightly painful only.
but now my right arm is hurting and i'm having difficulty moving it, ow.
it was quite fun, though, getting the injection.
i realised jabs are nothing to be afraid of.
in fact, i kind of like them!
the pain felt nice. :D
hahaha.

tiff and rai finally applied to poly on thursday too.
i'm just waiting for those two dopes to withdraw from school, so i can do so too.
hopefully monday. hehe.

i attended this talk organised by the MOH (ministry of health) yesterday about some scholarships that they give out for health sciences degrees.
the scholarships don't apply to me since they're for smart people with good 'A' level grades or poly people with good scores.
but i just went anyway to have a deeper insight of the Allied Health occupations.
it was such an eye-opener, i found out so much stuff about the different health science fields of study!
Allied Health occupations are like physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, dieticians, nurses, podiatrists, diagnostic radiographers, radiologists and prothetists/orthotists.
basically a career in allied healthcare is a career dedicated to healing others.
and physio just happens to fall into that category.
i like it anyway, there's a nice ring to it. :D
managed to speak to a physiotherapist after the talk, and he studied in melbourne!
though not la trobe, but good enough.
asked him many questions, and he was really helpful in dispensing information about his career and education.
and i got so excited after that because i couldn't wait to start learning all the stuff!
hehee just thinking of it is making me excited now. :DD
oh and i met phoebe too! (:
well i hope that i can get the MOH scholoarship if i do well in my foundation studies...
not only is it rather prestigious, it'll be such a financial relief for my parents!
especially since the scholoarship covers tuition fees, airfare, allowance (book, clothing, computer, maintainence, clinical placement).
OMG I NEED TO STUDYSTUDYSTUDY HARD!!

ahhh two huge chem assignments to do by monday!
total of 31 questions.
this feeling of having assignments to do in so little time, i totally didn't miss at all.
haha ohwell, gotta get back down to earth now.
time to get into study mode again!

rachietan will study hard this year!
Amen!