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Sorry Mark...

Renal exam just over. Okay la. Quite a few unexpected questions but it was slightly better than I thought it would be. Yeah, it does help when you walk into the exam hall thinking that the examination would be a killer like the previous batch got it. The previous time, I heard, they got testicular cancer in renal system assessment. Testicular cancer is in the reproductive system syllabus, not renal, so the seniors answered based on faded memory of the previous system. The reason given was that students are supposed to keep the stuff they learnt fresh in their memory, and that testicular cancer can have renal involvement.

Anyway, sitting here in the SRC room planning the revision plan for the next few weeks in preparation for EOS5, the killer. Yes, I did say that EOS3 is the killer examination... but now that it's over, kena dethroned by EOS5 edi. Quite scary la the exam, considering the sheer number of systems that would be tested.

The imucampus.com forum featured a friend complaining about the noise level in the e-lab due to pharmacy students. This is really a minor problem and generalising it to pharmacy students isn't really fair, since medical students generate a fair amount of noise as well. Anyway, I promised to pass the message to the pharmacy folks telling them to pipe down... and met up with the messenger. Apparently he did not see the need of it since they already read the forum on their own. Wah, quite surprising la because I more or less expected them to respond and defend themselves. Now I wonder if they are offended.

Everyone is going home after this. Ken balik makan kua. Chu Kin also... both after tai chi. Chow going for meeting then go back also. Think I'll just sit here and study CVS alone. Sigh... depressing la studying alone in the SRC room. It's quiet la but not exactly very conducive since the lack of movement does become sleep-inducing after a while. Don't feel like training, don't really feel like playing ping pong... not exactly very enthusiastic about studying either... but guess have to maintain the momentum la. Otherwise very hard to jump start again. *grins*

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Mentor Mentee Programme

Shirline came just in time for lectures yesterday so I circulated a paper asking for names of those who want to be mentors to the incoming semester 1 students. The paper came back with 61 names, with most "requests" being dowan nerd, girls only (preferable unattached) and the best from Kah Heng, as pretty as possible.

Never seen much of my mentor. Heck, I don't even know who she is. It's always been like that. Random matching of semester 1 students to semester 5 seniors, not taking into consideration the fact that not all semester 5 seniors are willing mentors and not all semester 1 juniors are willing mentees. Most turn to their own friends and do not even need a mentor to show them around. Others are probably so independent that they view any form of offers for assistance an insult to their capabilities. Yes, I've met a few who like that. Pretty offensive folks who view the world as a big insult.

So this year, with a difference, semester 1 students would be able to request for mentors and choose their own. The paper circulating around M104 asking them to fill in two columns: (a) "short self-description" and (b) "how I can help my mentee" should give a rough idea for the juniors to make their selections. *prays hard that there wouldn't be like rejects...

Chow's description reads: Me guy... Food... Food yummy... Me like Food. You bring Food... You good friend. *concludes with a piggy cartoon*

How I intend to help juinors: Me help you eat... (to which I added Me retarded kua...)

What kinda impression are we gonna give to the juinors?

Have you ever felt like you have tonnes of work to do, but all trivial? That you really should delegate your work, except that you're the lowest ranking member of the SRC and there's practically no one under your "to delegate" list? It gets overwhelming and then suddenly, you find yourself not having work to do... all the projects you have are either completed (like IMU Cup so long ago, the board, the coaches, the tournaments) or just waiting for approval from the guys up there.

Then you get bored and wonder if the SRC is indeed redundant.

So in the boredom, you open your books and say "hey, there's so much in here that's more fun than the SRC!" and wonder if you'd have the mood to return to SRC service when the projects come in again. Losing momentum? No, not really... it's the danger of discovering that the stuff that they don't teach you in lectures (found in the same books under "elaboration") are actually quite a great deal more fun than the stuff that they do. Maybe coz the fact that they are going to appear in the exams discourages me. You tend to lose interest in other things... like ping pong training that's held in Vista B now and I'm too lazy to go. Shoulder and ankle aching, but admittedly, that wouldn't have stopped me from going for Taekwondo... ping pong is just lower in the hierarchy.

I'll just continue mugging.

Kinda bored now. Chow sleeping on the couch... so no one to disturb before I start mugging in 13 minutes' time. So yeah... posting when there's nothing to post. *okay, ada ilham* Ever wondered what it's like to be in my shoes for a day? Today's schedule was something like this:

0620  Wake up, stare at the alarm clock and wonder what day it is
0622  Fully awake now after orientating myself. Must be that marmite-tasting liquor
0630  Finish showering and ready to leave home. Shoot where's that car keys?
0635  Discovered that Pa kindly kept car keys in drawer. Leaves house
0655  Drives through 9 traffic lights in 1st-3rd gear to Lee Hong's place
0700  Lee Hong comes out. Gossips in the car on the way to school
0740  Wah first time so early to school... goes to SRC room. Studies
0835  Alamak, five minutes late to PBL. *runs like kena kejar anjing*
0836  Reaches the room, almost everyone inside already. Dr.SC smiles at me
1000  Finished PBL. Volunteered to do CT scan. Feel stupid.
1005  Finish visiting the 1st cubicle of ground floor tandas. Drop by SRC
1015  Finish reporting to Jing (president SRC) and drive home
1045  Finds everyone ready to leave the house already. KLIA we come.
1145  Reach KLIA. Wait with Ahma while Kor kor checks in
1200  Damn hungry already. McDonalds. Ahma reminds me that I'm getting fatter.
1240  Hug Kor kor who reminds me to study harder. Sure forget one
1245  Visit tandas KLIA. Then visit Choc Shop. Yes, I did wash my hands
1300  Finish buying chocolates for Renee and Ken. Mission: locate WHK 2082
1400  Reach home. Visit tandas bilik... Fourth time in the day.
1430  Must go school otherwise sure lazy to attend lecture one.
1530  Stupid jam. Visit new cafeteria, students and operators seem happy.
1600  Coffee with Chow Chow (Cheok Soon) discuss IT stuff...
1615  Two back-to-back entertaining basic lectures in renal physio
1830  Argue about going for dinner...
1845  Finally go for dinner at FA coz it seems empty compared to the cafe
1910  Finish dinner, service good since nobody there. Bad business.
1922  Now... going to mug a bit la. Physio. Wake Chow up first.

That's all, folks. If you read until here, your patience damn keng man... pure ranting.

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