Traditional Chinese Medicine Here I Come!!!

So for semester 5, it is compulsory for us to complete a selective. There used to be only 4 choices to choose from, which are veterinary pharmacy, radiopharmacy, bioinformatics and analytical method validation. IMU has introduced a Chinese Medicine early this year and should I say lucky or not, it is also introduced into one of the selective choices.

Yeah, 5 choices this year but the sad news is that there are only 25 places eligible for students to apply in each selective and it is based on first-come,first-served basis. 25?? That’s just too cruel. We have around 125 students in our class and obviously, there are only 2 selective which are interesting enough to make students wanna fight for them, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Veterinary Pharmacy.

So the “kiasu-ness” plays a vital role in securing a place for yourself in the selection of your choice. Most of us The whole class handed in the forms hours before the submission time which is set by the academic affair department, even before the briefing about selective was done.

I don’t care. We don’t care.

IF YOU FOLLOW THE RULES COMPLETELY, YOU WILL NEVER SURVIVE!!!

My prayers were answered today. I was selected for Traditional Chinese Medicine!!

 

Saw my name? Saw my name?? :D

What made it perfect is that I have Sharon, Bel, Ah Long, Yit Kuay and Ru Yi together in the same subject! Woo Hoo!

There will be no written exam in this subject but we need to complete assignments and a presentation. I hope they are not too challenging. Phiew..

And here is the professor who will be teaching us, I guessed.

She has this “I learnt Chinese Medicine” face. Someone told me that I look like her, do I?????????????? If that’s the truth, maybe my brain looks like hers too? And I can score well in this! Hooray!!!

Maybe after months of lectures and countless of research that is needed for the assignment and presentation, we will be able to develop all kinds of Chinese Medicine skills?

Maybe most of us could diagnose diseases just by reading one’s pulse?

Or perhaps we are skilful enough to perform acupuncture on patients? Maybe not patients, on our friends, maybe?? :D

Or maybe this? I have no idea what is this… Moxibustion.. What on earth is that?

I don’t know what to expect from this subject. Will it be interesting? Will I regret it? I have no idea.

But there is one thing that I’ve always believed in, that no matter what situation we are thrown with, we will all survive in the end. :)

Semester 5 Resolution

Another new semester is approaching! Wow, I still couldn’t believe that I will be a Year 3 Pharmacy student! Why do I still feel like my brain is empty?? Hmmmmmph…

I’m really happy to see that our timetable has changed from a hectic zombie one to something which is more acceptable. =)

Anyway, I will still make a new semester resolution like what I did for the past semesters and I hope that this one will be an effective one! :)

So, here goes……

AH MEI’s Semester 5 SUPER EFFECTIVE RESOLUTION

1. Wake up at 7am and sleep before 12 midnight everyday.
2. Try not to fall asleep during lectures even if the lecturers are just reading the slides.
3. Be attentive in classes, no more visiting day dreamland.
4. No skipping lecturers  TRY not to skip lectures. (I hope IMU had done something productive during these 2 months with those lecturers who we complained in semester 4, otherwise I cannot succeed in this!)
5. REVISE EVERY DAY AFTER LECTURES. YES, I WILL DO THIS!!!
6. Organise notes.
7. Take Bak Fong Yun and B-complex.
8. Exercise 4 times a week.
9. Play badminton with Ah Jo and Jen Shen every Saturday.
10. Hiking on Sundays (if I have the chance).
11. Sit ups every night, taking Jason Seng as my inspiration =)
12. Bikini!! Bikini!!! Bikini!!!
13. Cheerleading with Jason Seng.
14. Making music videos with Jason Seng.
15. Ju Yok Fan.
16. Hanging out with Nickson, ShwuLing, Jian Fang, Ah Fu, Jenshen and whoever that had moved to KL for the time being. =)
17. Sistas and Bitches~
18. Call papa mama once a week.
19. Marry to my notes and studies.
20. Save $$$$. No more shopping. NO MORE.
21. Watch Glee.
22. Go concertsssssssssssssssssssss.
23. Win stuffs (especially concert tickets!!) from Fly fm. =)
24. No more vulgar words. (Setting Andrew as my inspiration :P)
25. Use “The Secret”~~~~
26. Pray.

 

Ok… are those enough? Or should I make it to 30?

Oh boy, I wish I can stick to all the above resolution! And get 4.0!!!! Muuuahahahahhahahaaaa..

*DREAMING*

A Day Trip Back to Kluang =)

Jason joined me back to Kluang last weekend, for a day trip! =)

He is my very first “non-kluangian” friend whom I brought back to my hometown. Yay!

I needed to give him a morning call at 6.45am just to make sure he didn’t stay in his dreamland for too long.

Us, posing after withdrawing cash from ATM at IMU.

$$$

We then walked to the bus terminal in Bukit Jalil Staium car park. Felt like a backpacker! =)

We took the 8am bus ride.

Jason started singing korean songs in the bus.

It was a 3-hour journey and we got bored eventually.

Jason started to post for the camera, “sexily”

And I……………………….

…was replicating his pose. ;)

After reaching Kluang at around 11.30am, we took a taxi to my dental clinic. Oh my, it was like 18 years ago since I last got on a taxi in Kluang. Nostalgic!

My orthodontist, Dr. Yang. Going to meet him after another 6 more months!

I already planned a day trip of non stop eating itinerary for Jason and I.

First stop: Honey Garden or Land? I forgot. I called it Xue Yuan.

I used to come here to have my tea. And there was where I gained my weights. :P

There is a great selection of cakes, pastries and Malay food like nasi lemak and mee siam. Yum Yum~

Can I order all??

I took a few of my all time favourites. =)

The super delicious fried chicken wing, fried carrot cake and some other kuih-muih. Yum Yum~~

And of course, I couldn’t resist the best toast bread in Kluang (at least in my opinion)!

They cut a piece of bread into half (at the side) and insert kaya and a small piece of butter inside.

Arh~ That’s what I call Roti Bakar!

Jason loved the fried carrot cake! =)

It was a sunny Saturday and we didn’t have any transport. But we didn’t mind walking under the hot sun!

Thanks babe for sweating together with me!

Second Stop: Long Shu Xia~

Another place that I used to have lunch with my family. It’s located under a big old tree, Long Shu.

It’s just a simple stall, with no proper cement floor, no fan and no toilet. But they serve good food. :)

My favourite dish of the stall, fried mee hoon.

Jason stopped the cook from adding any vege into it. 100% vege-free. =.=

Evil Jason.

We then walked to Kluang Train Station to check out the very first Kluang Railway Restaurant. Maybe the boss sensed my presence and decided to closed the shop for that day. SAD.

So we headed to the branch, Kluang Railway, which is air conditioned. Yeah, we walked again. And to tell you the truth, I never walked such a distance in Kluang before. I was sweating like a pipe! And Jason, his t-shirt was wet wet wet. 

Iced Milo and Iced coffee for us~

Sagu Gula Melaka.

Roti Bakar (Again).

It didn’t taste as good as I thought it would. The butter in the bread was already melted! FAILED. I still preferred the original shop.

I grabbed the opportunity to meet Sin Rox, one of my beeeessssstt buddies in Kluang.

Rox. Roxy. Rox.

She was kind enough to come all the way put, fetch Jason and I back to her house to chill for a while and then back to my old old home~

27B, Jalan Sihat, Taman Kerjasama, 86000 Kluang Johor.

I lived there for 14 years and now it is occupied by another unknown family.

I had so many much sweet and bitter memories from that house.

The living room, my messy room, my brother’s room which then turned into my study room, my parents’ room, the ironing room where I used to sit down on the floor chatting with my mom while she ironed her clothes and the garden, where I used to kill the ants by spraying water at them. MUUAHAHAHA. I was mean….

Home Sweet Home.

Next Stop? Xue Yuan For The Second Time!!!

Second round of Xue Yuan.

We came back for the famous fried mushroom. It’s famous in Kluang but Rox and her sister, Yee, had never tasted them before!

Look at the crispy golden skin~ Wooo La La~~

Sin Rox, looking all happy with the mushroom~

Sin Rox, Me and Sin Yee.

We ordered the mushroom like 4 times? And we finished them all!! WOO!

Random Stop: Chong Eng Primary School

This was a total random stop. Rox was driving pass the primary school where we studied 18 years ago and we decided to get down and snap some photos.

Here we are, in front of the gate of Chong Eng. We were taking care of Rox’s hair before the photo shoot.

Ok, done! Students of Chong Eng Year 1995 to Year 2000.

Does this remind you of your geeky class photo? :P

We were driven back to our old memories, thinking about the classrooms where we used to sit all morning to attend class.

Rox and I, pointing at our classrooms. =)

Jason wanted a snap shot of the classroom too.

Us, acting like 12-year-old kids.

It’s good to be back.

It was all quiet. But pictures of me playing around with old classmates were still fresh in my mind. We were all so innocent and cute back then. =)

This was where a psycho man died back in year 2000. He was shot by the police after attacking a young boy in our school. Yeah, I am serious. @@

Random Stop Continued: The park beside the school.

This was the very first recreational park in the early days. It is still well maintained till now.

I didn’t get to have fun in these slides. They built it when I was already a teenager. That’s just so unfair!

Jason, did you travel back to your childhood as well?

Oh no, I take back my sentence when I said “it is still well maintained”. The swings were all gone. Rox and I had to make our own invincible swings!

We used to play in these. How did our butts fit into these?

Alright. We would just stand on it. :P

Shots at a garden just look great, don’t they?

Next Stop: Tangkak Beef Noodle

This was dad’s favourite dish in Kluang.

It was already 4pm when we reached there. And Jason and I were still ordering food (We had been eating since 12 noon).

Beef Noodles.

 

Met up with Chia Teck and Boon Kiat as well. =)

Next Random Stop: Toy Story 3 with Jason~

The cinema was packed.

Jason and I with the tickets! I finally get to watch Toy Story 3! It’s my favourite cartoon which I basically grew up with it!

I wanted to cry at the end of the movie. It just brought back good childhood memories of mine!

Our day trip in Kluang ended with a dinner with Rox and Yee. They were so kind to wait for us until the movie ended and brought us for dinner and then to the bus terminal. Thanks Darlings!

Rox and Yee, thanks for the day again.

I love you all so so much!

And to Jason, thanks for accompanying back to Kluang. I hope you enjoyed the trip as much as I do. And I love you too!

=)