Remember I mentioned the photoshoot for the City to Bay Fun Run???

Spot me! =)

It is Malaysia’s 50th anniversary and I am not there to celebrate it.

time to pack the jumpers and scarfs.

I’m going to sydney on 19th and will be there will the 22nd November.

I need a place to stay.

Please???

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UniAdelaide had thier open day on Sunday and guess what? We went. Hahaha…. I might have been a student there for the past 6 - 7 months but to tell the truth, I still do not know where some the buildings / faculties are situated. And it was the only time we could walk into any room that we want to on the pretext of ‘checking out the facilities’. Haha… The Elder Hall for concerts was beautiful. Medium sized, old, and personal. Not at all like some huge comercial theater that intimidates. Anyway, the main reason we went there was for the free stuff. Lol. Got a toothpaste and brush from the dentistry stall, nursing gave out yoghurts and burn gels, had a squishy brain ball from the pathology table, pens, badges, bags, oranges, magnets, slime, post - its, notepads etc etc….. Haha… lame.

Oh and I got to dress up in scrubs for a photoshoot for the City to Bay run today. It was so much fun!!!! Hahaha….. Imagine 10 - 20 med students in blue hospital scrubs and caps running along pushing a hospital bed. =) I’ll try and see if I can get hold of a picture.

Malaysian Carnival yesterday. Wanted to bring my camera, then decided against it. -_-” I refuse to look like some ‘katak bawah tempurung’ snapping pictures of foods that I have practically grown up with.

They had pretty good nasi Briyani. The roti jala sold out before I could get some for myself (was almost devastated, then decided to cheer myself up with Gloria Jeans’ Arnott’s Tim Tam drink!!! Must try!) The satay was super expensive. We sat down under the sun playing congkak for a good 1 1/2 hours. And of course the organisers were very fascinated to see ‘ang moh’s playing congkak so they snapped like a few hundred pictures of them. haha…. I have a feeling I’ll be seeing these pictures plastered somewhere for promotional / showing off purpose.

Maybe I can bring my congkak set over next year and host a congkak party for them. =P lol

I month and 2 days late. That is what was left of my birthday cake which some friends from med school baked for me. Watched transformers (for the 3rd time) at the Village Common Room with them. Then I guess everyone was pretty much starving cos the cake was cut up and distributed before I had a chance to get a proper picture of it. Ok, joking, I just forgot to take a picture of it before that. =P Had my first experience of a dizzy whizzy as well when Andrew swung me around in a circle with my feet of the ground. Traumatising.

That was on Friday night. Yesterday (Saturday), went to the theater to watch Amazing Grace (true story bout this guy who practically devoted his life to abolishing the slave trade in England). We went to Palace Nova since the usual cinemas don’t really screen these stuff. Pretty cool place, not at all like the usual cineplex. There were actually more people here than any cinemas I’ve seen in Adelaide before, even Harry Potter didn’t have that many audiences. I guess Adelaide people prefer the more serious, intellectual type of material then. =P

Looks like an art gallery.

Main staircase at the entrance.

I probably looked like an idiot taking pictures of the area. But anyway….

Then there was dinner at this Chinese Restaurant on Gouger St. Heard that it was nice but the annoying thing is that they’re always very packed so to be on the save side, you’d have to make reservations beforehand or they might not be able to accomodate you.

Oh and today there was a little ‘Home Spa’ session with some friends. But we had to pretend to be interested in the products that they were trying to sell us and try not to nod off half way through.

Haha… someone knows what this picture means. =) Nice right???

Happy 50th Independence to Malaysia.

My Communicology course coordinator loves giving examples of Malaysian doctors having trouble communicating with patients in Australia. -_-” She happily gave an example of ‘if you’re were a student studying medicine in Kuala Lumpur, and communicating in Baharsa Malay….’ It was posted on the website for everyone to read.

I happily pointed out to her that she spelt it completely wrong. =P Oops.

There was also this other example in the animation of local doctor having difficulty communicating with a sick boy from Malaysia. -_-”

Our English is that hard to understand isit??? I add a few ‘lah’s into my sentence u cannot understand d?? So cacat.

Come on ppl, show them that their perception of us is wrong!!! Yeah!

If I see another example about Malaysia, I’m gonna quit this course.

Someone raised their hand during lecture some time back when the lecturer asked us what does ‘malaise’ mean. That person answered that it means ‘people from Malaysia’ (Malays).

Very funny Andrew. I should have poked you at that time. (and stop poking me!!! especially NOT when I am sleeping during lectures!!!!!)

Argh!!! So many things this month. Don’t know which ones to go and which ones to skip

3 - Pre-clin Pub Crawl
18 - Movie night for Med girls
21 - Gastrointestinal Education Forum
24 - Malaysian Carnival at Uni
- INSIGHT Movie Night (The last King of Scotland)
25 - Allied Health Ball
31 - Malaysia Independence Dinner
- Miss & Mr Med Function!!!
- Amanda’s birthday
1st Sept - Malaysia Merdeka Party

I’m still alive, although the new TV in my living room is gonna kill me off soon. =P

Gloria Jeans White Hot Chocolate!!! Must have. Boo Starbucks. Where is my Coffee Bean??? =(