1. Appreciation
I can't really say that my YEAR has officially ended yet, since results are not out yet and i really really don't want to have to repeat this year.
So to start the "end of the year" postings off, i'll start with the appreciation thread first. Most of the pple i mention don't even know abt my blog and thus wont be reading this, but i want to thank them anyway.
1. Mum
I didn't think its possible that someone else can do more work FOR me for MY exams, but she's done it. And she has always done it for the past many yrs. That's simply one form of encouragement - i work harder, she work harder too. Everyday she prepares like 5 course meals for me and her for dinner, and lunch as well. I don't have to do any dishes, cook, or do any housework. She even mowed the lawn too. Despite her backpain and all. Made me feel really really bad. I feel guilty too cos she had to attend ortho clinic the day before my exams and i was too stressed out to go with her (cos that clinic has LONG waiting times and i know i'll be there for the whole morning) so a friend went with her - and met a rude rude doctor who told her she may need surgery instead. Aii...
But despite all that, she's still there for me to complain about my anxiety, nervousness, calm my nerves, sending prayers for me. I love her double-pan-fried eggs which she cooks for my meal right before the exam - you know, where 2 eggs is a symbol for 1 - 0 - 0 . So nice. She's been doing that since forever, and her egg frying techniques are now phenomenal! I love the eggs.
She even put up with my late eating and sleeping times which affected her own sleeping patterns...
and taking care of me while she works and goes to physiotherapy and acupuncture daily too.
Thank you mum
2. Vidya and Stella
Its been really cool studyin with her and stella. Through australia we practiced together on the train, in our flat. I have the tendency to lapse into stupor after dinner, on the couch,until the next morning...and poor vidya and stella had to try to hard to:
1. try to make me stay awake so i can study
2. shift me so i dun take up the whole couch (they eventually gave up since i was unrousable, GCS 8)
Anyway, eventually the made a rule that i was allowed to lie down on the couch - and whenever i felt my back "giving way" and started leaning down they pushed cushions beside me to keep me upright. They even tried pain to rouse me, apparently. Despite that i still slept - so they decided to ban me from the couch and i was to either go to bed, or sit on the dining table to study instead. (this is because they let me sleep on the couch for quite a few nights already and i complained that they didn't wake me up when they retired to bed)
I was also really glad that vidya was in hamilton with me for my o&g run too - even though our group was really nice, it was still nice to have a "buddy" - cos she always lived in the next room to me. It was wonderful having a jogging buddy and study buddy and practice buddy. In the beginning we would even cook together - and seriously, we made a meal in like 5 minutes (stuffed veges and rice together into rice cooker, went for a run, detoured to pack&safe, bought a cooked chicken,hehe)...thats was our record!
Vidya also attempted to start an audit on my ...ahem...achievements. We would always try to set aims for ourselves everyday when we study - the minimum being e.g. we'd study the tutorials we had that day. And she also noticed that my pattern of study is like....i'll do almost nothing for a few days and then have this major catchup session (not that i ever caught up to heR), and the retire for a few days. So she decided to make a table where i would fill in my aims everyday, and then fill in what i've achieved everyday, then study and see the pattern...
hahah great idea, but alas, it didn't happen - i duno whether it was intended to motivate or humiliate me, hehe...
It was definitely nice having someone to practice my OSCE examinations with too around the hospital - and despite the numerous times i complained to her about her type-A-ness, it was good to have her as a whip around to make me feel like i really DO need to catch up on work and do MORE!!!
And even to have someone to run with me as well - like that rainy day. I was real tired, feeling lazy, and vidya insisted that we do 2 rounds. It was pouring! but she was like - we'd wet anyways so y not. So i was like...ok...so natasha also came along, and we jogged. Me being more adventurous jogged in front of them, and when i finished 2 rounds, back at the start point, they were standing under the tree chatting. WHat the%%$^$&?
"Aren't we doing 2 rounds?!"
"No!!! i said we do 1 round, then turn around and look for natasha as a mini-2nd-round!"
"URGH!! u didn't tell me that!!"
"I shouted at you when you started ur 2nd round but u didn't look back!"
"It was raining!!! windy!! i didn't even see you, how was i supposed to hear you?!"
Yup, that's my jogging buddy. But even during the exams she came over once and we went for a jog too, which is nice = )
And also for the last 8days before the final osce - we practiced at the hospital, at stella's house, we had our mock-osce's. While it was stress stress stress it was fun too.
Its good that it was alrite that we lived in such close proximity for the last 4 months - i hope the coming year will be even more fun!
3. Jennifer
My thanks extend back to when mum was in hospital - she was great - visited me and mum the first night while i was there, and came back with food in the following week too. Even though i didnt' see much during the year, it was fun to practice with her in the hospital the times i was in akl. And the week before exams, we all practiced at her house too in the morning before going out for lunch - it was cool cos that's abt the only break we ever give ourselves - and it was good fun. And she called me herself after her osce to tell me what she got and how she went to prepare me for it, thanks! =)
4. Eunice
Been so caring for me this year - besides listening to be babble abt things at times, she keeps herself updated with what i'm doing, always sends me txt n leave messages/emails for me to have coffee, meet up, vent etc. I really appreciate this ,thank you! If anything abt this yr, its that i havnt really initiated anything social much - and i really appreciate those pple who bothered to ring me up/txt me to go out etc! Cos you know that's the social interaction i would be getting! =)
5. Lucy
Even though i can probably count with my fingers on 1 hand the number of times i've seen her this year, thank you for being one of the bloggers - really - cos without pple like you visiting my blog, it'll be boring! and i know my blog has been pretty shaggy and dull lately - i will try to make it more interesting in the future when i can!But i appreciatte the tags u leave and stuff - believe it or not that's one of the things i look fw to when i'm down in the computer room in waikato and i'm sick of studying! Feel free to give me a call txt watever abt phones if you feel the need to! and i'll be here whole summer too so we've got to meeet up after your exams ok!
6. Mike C
Same goes for you - thanks for keeping me up to date with the happenings of the anime world - without your input i won't have the distractions necessary to disturb my study =P and the cravings for ps2!!! ^^
7. Snoopy
Snoopy surprised me with a bottle of taro pudding milk tea one afternoon. I was so surprised! and it was so nice! Besides that, thank you for the well-wishing before exams etc. Its so nice to know that after so many years of exams, you still remember!! = ) You know, i always say we shud go out for cocktails sometime - and i really want to - but i duno where to go and i'm scared to go...haha ironic eh? Tell me if you have any bright ideas oh!
8. HoonC
Hm. The idiot was on the receiving end of my emotional bombings at times, poor guy! But thanks for sharing some of your random encounters with me, hehe. Lets go to Melbourne nxt yr to watch sum gymnasts eh? Oh yea, and thanks for the notes - even tho they dint' come up - but yea... even that time you tried to get me out wif u guys was nice too. When will i stop being such an insecure biatch? aiii~ But seriously, at times, this dude would be the picture i'd paint of someone who's got it together, ya know, someone who's really got it hanging! Thanks for the support you've given me at times. And thanks for the times you searched for my 21st venue with me, and took me and serene to mini-golf! =)
9. Dhamidhu
hmm hmm. Another chump i complained to a lot. Oh man - this is the other sri lankan that lived nxt to me for 6 weeks in hamilton, another reason that i enjoyed my time down there. Real cool having him a buddy, along with bob. Those burbourn nights, ho ya!! The time we drove ard hamilton looking for bourbon, ended up with this diluted woodstock bourbon and diet coke. Yeesh. And the numerous late night bitching-bourbon sessions. If you look back this blog in the feburary 2005 section you'll discover what gossiping biatches we were =P but we had reason to!! I still remember watching alien vs predators in his room drinking bourbon. I even did the most amazing run ard the lake record time after drinking bourbon with him. You think red bull energises you? wait till you try bourbon cow =P Man. And his gf even cooked dinner for me one night, so sweet! it was really nice and taiwanese too. Gosh. What's great abt this dude is that he is just a nostalgic as me. There's one other person who i used to share nostalgia with all the time, probably a little too much,hehe, but stil, its nice when we can reminise those experiences together. Experiences that we thought was shit but warm in retrospect.
Apart from all that, he's one of the few pple i've warmed up to this year - a great guy, has the social life that i envy, but yet really really down to earth. If i have to name a person that suits the phrase "nice guy", its gotta be him. He's got a way that allows you to say anything and everything and he's just so understanding. Another quality i admire. so dude - thanks for being a part of my life this year! =)
10. Jenny C
Yo. You shud feeel proud that you're one of the few non-med pple that got to see me the most this year. Yes. Its pathetic i know. Its been scary seeing rhyse grow so quick. Somehow it makes me feel old. And you have a stagnant blog, slacker. I'm still going!! are you backing out on me now!? But besides that, below your new found XXX self (i won't describe all that here, all those interested can read her own blog at her discretion), you are still the bubbly girl whom serene got along with well. Thanks for being there and making paihia a wonderful trip. All the planning and you even helped witht the driving. God those nights we discussed boobs and carrot legs and even muscle guys on the guess guess show, along with vodka and blackcurrent juice (it was supposed to be cranberry! i messed up). I miss them. Summertime it is again. Can we go relive that again? Serene gave me more episodes of i guess...!! =P(i've watched most of them already tho, there's 1 episode of musclar cute詩文 guys that you mite like!!)
11. Jenny H
The new british and korean fusion idol.
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Kidding. Loudmouthed girl that graced NZ with her grandiose presence for 3 days. HMPH! what arrogance. And decided to go hang out in the resp ward in kaoshiong instead with the TB sufferers. And then holidaying in Korea?! dipping herself in kimchi baths and whats not! Making me jealous. Had i not been breathing in the air of city life in sydney and thrashing my wallet out in melbourne i would have been jealous. It was YOU jenny that caused me to love melbourne before i even got there. That email. I was green with envy after reading it!! All those places you've been - makes me feel so...litttle, like i want to be anywhere but here.
But glad tat i got to hang out wif u for a bit before you left tho. THanks for the emails you've given me, but know that i, for 1 , loves them, the longer the better! Love ya poems =)
I will visit brum someday.
12. Ilia
If you ever get lost in siberia out in the crevase of the snowfield, you'll vist the bear you see in the snow is ilia. He has the knack of giving advices and helping out lonesome cluessless wanderers and getting back on track. Thanks dude - for all the help this year. GP assignment, O&G advice...all the other shit that i ring you abt. I'm forever ringing this dude for advice and complaint. Hehhe hope you liked the crab we had at our house the other time. You looked like you were being tortured while eating it. Haha. Hm. I never did get to buy you a drink the other night, did i? Ahhh shit. Well mr ENT surgeon, all the best dude! It feels me with pride to see you faring far and well. 
13. Gina and Danielle
Thanks to these 2 girls, especially gina, for visiting me n mum in hospital, with all those food, many times while i was there - and providing me with advice on exams etc. And offering notes, books to me too. Thanks you two! Its always refreshing to hear your giggles and evil plans. Have fun flatting next year girls! I miss the trip we did last yr to rotorua and stuff - wish we can do that again!
14. Others
Many other pple have been really helpful to me all through this year - and i'm sure i've thanked them separately in different entries...
Serene-whom refuses to accept my thanks from now on without LV bags attached to them...hehe...kidding
Thomas-thanks for the awesome tour and company
Penny-same to you, i love just hanging around aimlessly with you, and shopping-miss that!
YH - loved meeting you with you and the long discussions we had
Vatsa- organising mike's party - that was a high
MikeT- thanks for the awesome surprise at the beginning of this year, and that mini-speech
Wun-thanks for keeping me updated through the year, and helping search for my 21st venue. Its good to know we can still talk =P
All rite that's all i can think off at the moment - i'll add more if i miss out on anyone = )
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