Wednesday, January 11, 2006
For Sheena III
Okay, let me clarify one thing before I go any further. The reason I'm not flying is not caused by turbulence or anything. It's just price of petrol increased and this captain can't really afford buying gallons of oil needed to fly this plane.
Tiny voice in EVERYBODY's head: Excuses, excuses, excuses.
A few of my non-IMU readers has come to think that something bad has happened and the 'unseen circumstances' somehow meant different things to them. When I opened my email just last night, it was flooded with friends asking what went wrong.
I compiled a few:
1. I failed my exams? (almost everyone thought that)
2. I have medical postings to some strange wayward place? (I have no idea where this came from.)
3. I went on holiday? but with a side note of: am I unhappy with that?
4. My computer crashed? (TOUCHWOOD!)
5. Something wrong with some member of the family? (TOUCHWOOD!!! TOUCHWOOD!! *touches random friend's head*)
6. I did something bad. (like...? and how does that stop me from bloggin?)
7. I got lazy? (tat circumstance was so seen)
Sigh... I have friends who cared to email and even call from overseas and continents, and friends who don't give a damn. And I have friends who do not ask but cares a lot too (i can only hope). But the real answer ain't up there.
Unlike many of you think, living in the all infamous Klang Valley doesn't warrant me getting Streamyx and super fast connections. This is shameful to admit but I am still using dial-up *hides face with keyboard* but dial-up with quite okay connection *hides face again from BOOs* and I'm quite happy with the speed, except for the fact that I pay by the minute and the longer I stay online, the more I pay.
Hey, it's not my fault. It's just that I have 4 other siblings and if I get streamyx, they don't have to study anymore. And my dad, he's the one paying, not me!!!
But I've been leeching off this (dumb) gracious neighbour's Wireless which he (dumbly) kindly forgot to set a security on (God bless that man) and so I've been enjoying FREE Streamyx speed surfing for three months where I've been downloading like crazy and blogging from home and basically leeching bandwith and download speed for all my worth.
The 'unseen circumstances' is that...
Richard: They put up security dee?
...I can no longer surf and use BitComet. No, it's definitely not security as I still can use LimeWire and according Mr. Tech-Whiz Rajinder Singh, if LimeWire boleh pakai, semua boleh pakai. But not in my case I guess. So goodbye surfing and manga/anime/Desperate Housewives downloading.
And I'm back to slow, expensive surfing. Now you understand why my plane as to be parked in the hangar until I return to school and get better and FREE connection.
Tiny voices in EVERYBODY's head: Excuses, excuses, excuses.
But due to ANOTHER unseen circumstance of Sarah Sheena Toyat calling me from MIRI (the hulu place where her best friends scratches their armpits and pull ticks from each other hair), I bring you PART III of the FOR SHEENA series.
All good things come in 3s, not that Sheena is a good thing *use keyboard to shield from missiles thrown from Miri* but she ain't that bad a thing either, and so this Post is again dedicated to Sheena who called me personally to blog.
Her reason: No one is blogging anymore. And she is bored as she has no connections (ie blogs) with her more civilized friends ie US, the bloggers on the other side of the South China Sea.
But I must mention that she herself is not blogging. Sheesh, like the pot calling the kettle black, or like a lazy blogger calling other lazy bloggers lazy. Even if she has nothing to do back in her hulu kampung other than picking ticks out of her friends' back, I would have love to know about how she did it, you know the minute details of how many ticks can be found on one friend or how did she get rid of those ticks (eat it?)
But tis true. Blogs lie in slumber like a bear in hibernation or sunk deep to oblivion like rotting ships trapped among the kelps of Sargasso Sea. Even ADELINE GONG is not blogging. Agong, the hugest blogger among us, the blogger who is a blogging freak, the one who blogged every single day and blogged more the closer we neared our Final Exams. And Yee Pei too, the longest blogger among us, her site is down and I can't check for updates.
So is the blogging fad starting to die off like all fads before it (IRC/ICQ/Friendster etc.)
Or is it just a temporary fter-exam-exhausted-lazy-procrastinating-holidayla phase that will wear off?
But it doesn't matter for the moment because I'm dragged here to fly this plane and by Lord, I will.
By the way, in a bid to find time and internet connection, I'm flying this plane from my work place. But unlike my workplace described here, the computer I'm using now lacks the internet connection, so I'll be sharing my colleague's computer which has. So if I'm caught blogging, Sheena, you are to blame.
*walks into hangar, gazes at plane with a sigh and pour in a gallon of petroleum. Enters cockpit, turns on all equipments and start up plane. Crack, boom, crash!! Engine starts up*
So where should we go today?
Let's go back time and start from where my last post (not the anouncement of holiday, the EoS wan). Oh yeah, did I tell you guys I got A-? Without studying as hard as every poor soul in the library.
Daniel (musing to Richard): Elena don't have to study wan ah? (when I went off to play the computers while I was supposed to be studying)
Ken Jay: If I have super powers like Elena, I will pass my exams without studying.
Praise the Lord, only He could have done this miracle. I expected a B at the most but with His miracle, everyone got damn pretty good grades. Thank you Lord, thou art great and almighty.
Okay, enough of talking about the waste of time exam. Fast forward to the movie outing we had and the fabulous dinner with the juniors.
Booking the tickets was a trial itself. I was lucky in the sense that I went online when the GSC server was down. I refreshed once and server was up and I got myself 6 tickets for King Kong, thinking that maybe onli 6 people wants to watch. One hour later I found out that more people wanted to watch and so I went to book and the booking was full. It was only one hour later.
But things worked out fine. We had fantastic seats for both movies and the seats in GSC 1 Utama is gorgeous. Timing and all were perfect, we arrived in time before the traffic jam and all.
Sheena: Very good planning, Elena.
ME: When I plan, I plan perfection.
A warning to all my IMU readers who one day may go out with Sheena to a movie or something:
Put CK between you both, or something. Maybe you can sit on Seat No 1 and she sit on Seat No 14. Because if you sat beside her, you'll have your own sound effects screaming right into your ear. And my friends said I was bad, sheesh. We were watching Narnia, yes Narnia, kids movie (fabulously wonderful show, if you don't go into the details) no horror whatsoever and she was screaming almost every minute. Aslan roars, she screams; the Witch turned something into stone, she screams; Lulu (Lucy) falls into the river, she screams. Argh!!! You would have thought she would have left her screaming behind at the batch and debate table before entering the cinema.
Haha, no offense girl, but the truth is harsh.
On the brighter side, it's pretty funny and I was rolling in my seats laughing my ass off. And I was forced to sit beside her again during King Kong. Her screams could have rivalled the main female character's.
Dinner with the Juniors were full of laughter. I love my Juniors *snuggle snuggle*. They are just like little kids that I can bully and make fun of and they still look up to me and love me. *ruffle ruffle* My juniors, I'm glad I can still be with them next year and hopefully Hai Liang the new president will get us the money to go to Manila!!!
Manila, here we come! Too bad Agong can't see the bunga boy. He'll probably ask about her.
By the way as almost all the senior debaters are bloggers and they drop by sometime: You have not paid the Italiannies bill.
Here's the list of drinks, just leave in the comment box what you drank and I'll bill you your bill:
Yellow Birdie (wtf is that? Tweety's dish water?)
Casablanca (Is that a place or a guy? Oops, that's casanova)
Strawberry Colada (eww... strawbery?)
5 Ice Lemon Tea (we went for the cheapest ne?)
Grape shake (shaken not stirred)
Strawberry Juice (eww... strawberry?)
Cranberry Juice (isn't there a band called tat?)
Desperate no?
Now that I've finally 'graduate' from Phase 1 medical school, I can get back to some semblance of life as a human being and not a no-life medical student that I was for the past 2 months slogging away in the library *shivers at memory*. It was awful, I tell you, awful.
And going back home after staying at Vista could be fun too. Except there are changes back home and I knew not what those changes were until I experienced them hands first.
Eg:
1: They changed the salt and aji-no-moto containers.
Imagine dumping a handful of MSG into your dishes. Bleah!!!! Carcinogenic, balding-nogenic, disease-nogenic...
2: My dad changed doctors.
Yup, and I called the wrong doctor to make an appointment and even went there to collect his medication. Waited like an idiot, got so embarrassed.
3: My sisters changed piano teachers.
And I went to pick them from the wrong place too.
4: They changed grocery store.
I went to the wrong one, handed them the shopping list, watched them scurry around and then found out it was the wrong shop. Damn embarassing, worse than being at the clinic.
5: Market shifted place.
Spent one hour trying to find the market as I did not bring my handphone. Thank God the pork lady was famous and I managed to get it by asking around.
6: Hospital meant totally different hospitals.
My dad was hospitalized once in SJMC last year. Did not realise when he called last week from the hospital, it was a hospital in Klang. Thank God I have to drive all the way to Subang to collect him.
7. My mom's customer shifted department.
I went to collect sample and went to the wrong department. The old department was in North Port and I went there and made a fool of myself.
8. My uncle opened a new shop in Bukit Tinggi and no more selling fish in the market.
I went to the market to look for him.
Talk about embarassing moments and tons of scoldings from parents. Haha.
The holiday's were meant to be of fun and enjoyment and days of laziness and procrastination. But thanks to my TWO maids running off, I'm left with the house chorse (how the hell you spell chores?)
And in the spirit of the 99,999 whatever hosted by the Star newspaper, here is my top 9 most hated chores countdown:
9. Feed the dogs - at least I get to bully bond with my dogs at the same time.
8. Cook - I burnt meals most of the time, but other than being carcinogenic, they are pretty tasty. No aji no moto, trust me.
7. Wash the car - at least I get to get wet (sounds wrong)
6. Do the dishes - wet wet wet.
5. Iron the clothes - I burnt my pants the other day. Sob sob
4. Wipe the tables - with non-clutter free surfaces, this chore is a chore.
3. Vacuum the floor - Other than being super noisy and having a double storey large house with plenty of floor to vacuum, nothing.
2. Mop the floor - as above and just getting the floor wet is not enough (learnt that the bad way)
1. Wash the clothes - damn tiring and must wake up before sun so they can dry when sun is up. Arms and back ache like mad. And must not be color blind.
Which left me with no free time to even use the computer or the PS2 (hey, why din't I come up with this excuse for why am I not blogging?)
But at least I got off from chore duties during Christmas eve to go to church for Christmas Mass and I went to St Francis Xavier Church (yes, a Catholic church) Most of you people would be wondering why someone like me who is anti-Catholicism (hey, I'm not, I'm just... erm... um... find Catholics erm... strange) goes to a Catholic church for Christmas. My boyfriend being a Catholic has nothing to do with it, well, maybe to an extent it does, but I'm not going to be a Catholic (God forbid!) I'm a Methodist and proud to be.
I digress...
It was lonely going to church on Christmas eve alone without any friends. I would have gone with Cass if she was here, so instead I tried my IMU friends. Richard was the best choice, duh! and Agong next. But Richard managed to convince me to go to a Catholic church (no easy feat) and so I went. I even dressed up for the occasion, thinking that his parents was going to, but I thought wrong and another wasted effort of looking decent.
I've been to Christmas Mass in a Catholic Church before, in Sibu where I was like the blind who knew not what was happening. At least this time I had Richard to explain what was going on. And SFX has Father Simon who I find so cute!!!
When she called to get me to blog, Sheena and I were gushing over Father Simon (yes a Catholic priest! God forbid!!). I find him cute (I have a tendency to older men, not that you have to know that) and Sheena went on about how he could sing, about his sense of humour and sarcasm and his intellectual and every thing about him that is good. From my point of view, the only negative part of him is that he is a Priest and he is Catholic.
Haha, but he's pretty cool for a Catholic priest. Actually from all the priests I ever talk to (two in my life), Catholic priests ain't that bad. But then I'm overgeneralising. If the Pope was anything to go by, priests can be really stiff and kayu (God forgive me for I have blasphemize (is there such a word)).
And that night I had turkey with JAM!!! I do not know you eat turkey with jam, ewww!!!! But it was quite delicious.
After Christmas, a trip was planned to go to Singapore, Me, my dad, Richard, Jody and my sis. It was like a road trip, full of laughter and all. Having my dad along was not such a bad thing as he can pretty cool at times. You must be wondering why in the world was my dad following me to Singapore, but it was the other way around. We were just accompanying him to NCC (National Cancer Center). Planning for a trip to Singapore is tough, tougher when you have multiply 2.23 to everything to order and buy. Hotels were booked but not confirmed, and we can't cancel and all. But in the end everything turned out fine. We had fun trying to outwit/outplay/outpay the ERP system, finding routes that don't have to pay.
For those who do not know what is ERP, it is the toll paying system that Singapore implemented and are activated on certain time of days. Being a foreign car, we have to pay SD$5 per day if our car was ever detected by any one ERP gentry. So we did lots of calculation to find out izzit cheaper to drive or use the MRT (Jody la, being so calculative and all, memang SRC treasurer blood wan) and decided on routes and time that will take us out of the city without paying a single cent. Hehe...
Going to NCC was quite an experience too. I'm not sure if IMU students still remembered anything that they've learned. Me, I'm a blank slate, feed me. Richard and I entered with my father to see a doctor, a junior doctor who was probably a posgraduate intern. He actually did all the Cranial Nerves testing, I was amazed I could identify whatever he was doing. We were mumbling Cranial Nerves as he tested them out.
And then the senior consultant came to meet us and it was so funny to see the junior rushing here and there trying to please the senior doctor. Damn, would I be like that next time? I wanted so much to go up to the junior and tell him: "I will go through what ever you are going through now. Wish me luck."
We had to return after New Year for a PET scan. I have no idea what a PET scan is for. All I know is that I learned it in CNS and it's used to find out about meningitis or tumour or something. How it works, what it does actually, nothing. I'm a blank slate, remember?
Sigh... what a waste of 2.5 years.
So actually what happened in that 2.5 years for me? Was there any changes? How did I grow within that 913 days? Let's evaluate myself using the Wellness system that Prof Paul Chen (may he live forever, for he may the reason I got A- for EoS).
*rush off to dig into pile of notes. Return one hour later*
Sorry, notes in a huge rubbish pile, just found it.
6 Dimensions of Wellness.
Physical
I have not changed physically. I have already reached the peak of growth, so I ain't taller (TZ: You are so short just like cute RO character) I lost weight during the ORDEAL of EoS. My stamina increased when I was doing tai chi and decreased doubly when I stopped for EoS.
Intellectual
The saying of 'the more you learn, the less you know' is certainly true, literally. The more facts I stuff in, the less I remember. I'm the kind of person that stores facts in little boxes and after the exam, I empty all the boxes, so intellectually, I'm still the same clueless student I was before I entered IMU.
Emotional
Still the cool, cold blooded person that I was. I entered this profession not because I am compassion or anything. Entering this profession was a MISTAKE and I stayed because it was too late to back out. And I am not someone who backs out so easily.
Social
I made cool friends, but somehow being a friend as an adult is way way tougher than when it was making friends when we were kids. Being an adult friend takes more than just being a friend. There is the gossiping and backstabbing and of course "You are my friend or enemy" thing. But I still stick on to the kiddish innocent ways. If you are my friend, I have faith in you and trust that you would not backstab me. Afterall, you are my friend right?
Occupational
I hate this profession. Full stop.
Spiritual
Coming to IMU was a big step in spiritual faith and only by His grace that I got in. He set me on this path and even I hold a grudge against Him for it, I bet He has a plan for me so I'm going to be obedient and follow. Coming to IMU was one of the best thing that happened in my walk in faith. Because in IMU, the entire gang I hang out with are Christians who helped me in my walk. My parents do not allow me to go to church, but in IMU, I get to go to CF where I can worship and sing praises and I get to go to church (albeit a Catholic one). And in this 2.5 years, I dare to say I grew spiritually.
Ok, that covers the PIESOS of Wellness. And what other major things happened?
- The relationship between me and my BF strengthened.
- Debating perfected my art of bullshiting and now I can even bullshit my way into convincing the lecturers about the patients I am supposed to clerk. (Agong: She totally winged it.) It's like an instinct. The lecturer will question/POI you, and if I don't have the answer, I make up one and somehow convince them to give me good grades for it.
- Adulthood is tough and stupid.
- I still don't make a good doctor.
- Kicking the ball is funner when you are eager for blood and have the need to destroy something.
A new year has started. 2006, a holiday year for me as I would be just doing the BMedSc which would probably some rotation. It's Vishna, how tough can it get? So do I have any New Year resolutions? Other than enjoying myself? Nothing much.
9 Things to do / accomplish during or by the end of 2006:
1. Finish at least ONE damn book. Sheesh, I need to get out writer's block.
2. Win the Nobel Prize by finding the cure of something drastic (eg AIDS, cancer, SARS, Avian Flu) during BMedSc course.
3. Get my PSP!!! RICHARD!!!!
4. Get a PS3 and find ways to modify it.
5. Finish up all my games. Tons of it piled up. (Usually people's lecture notes pile up, only my games pile up.)
6. Go for at least one dive at Sipadan.
7. Upgrade my computer and get some more hard disk space.
8. Go to Manila.
9. Get a cool laptop/PDA.
But another new year means more separation. It's goodbye to all good friends and me being me, I'll probably lose out on the keeping in touch race.
Look what happened between me and my best friend? Me being her best friend is a joke!!! Damn useless a best friend I am lor. Sorry Cass!!!
My entire batch would be dispersing like dandelions in the wind, everyone flying everywhere. Some fly south, most good friends fly north and far far away. Okay, I told myself not to be nostalgic and I won't until the very end when everyone finally flies off.
But things are already going downhill. When Sheena called, I have no idea what to talk to her about. When I saw her number, I started wrecking my brain for things to talk about, and I found nothing. Nothing that we had in common anymore. IMU was the bond that held all of us together; with IMU gone, there is nothing to tie us together and we are free from the tatters of each other.
Sigh... all meetings have their separations, friends come and go. Hopefully, they may be gone, but a little piece of them remains in our hearts forever.
Anyway, HAPPY NEW YEAR to all my faithful passengers and know that I'm missing you guys where ever you are.
Eww... bulu roma standing up.
And since this is a FOR SHEENA post, I'm going to write what I'm going to miss about this friend call Sarah Sheena Toyat.
1. Insulting Miri.
Being a small orang asli kampung with houses on trees and her friends scratches each other. And have no Celcom connection (Celcom covers everywhere, except Miri la). Raise your hand if you know where Miri is. I did not know. Haha.
2. Insulting Catholics.
A Methodist pastor and a Catholic priest were best of friends, but they always argue about the different ways of their preaching and the way their each denomination works. Both insist they were right and the other wrong. And so in the end the pastor told the father: "Fine, you do things your way, and I'll do it His way."
3. Trying to kick her face during futsal. Damn irritating keeper. Too good!
4. She calling me cute. A cute little piggy, I like tat.
5. She acting like a big sister I thank God I never have. Haha, it's a compliment!!!
6. Her loudness. She is loud, trust me, I know.
7. Her scolding during debates. For being fed all the time. I like it, suah!
8. Her bimboness and fake pinoi-accent. Wait, why am I missing that?
9. Her.
And so ends today's flight. I've updated, HALLELUJAH!!! And hopefully, I will still be able to fly this plane sooner too. Haha, I wish!
Yuffie: Cloud, say something.
Cloud: ....... something.
- Final Fantasy VII
