Pengilly Day Out

So. Spontaneous decision. Got called out at 1pm. Productive day. Meaningful too.

Today was meant to be catch up study day, and I guess I did achieve parts of that. Not as much as I would have liked, but enough. Running out of steam at the moment, and talking to my Pengilly boy Wen, so I decided... I should write a bit today, since he was with me the most of the day, and I paid a meaningful visit to an Aunty in hospital.

Mum and Dad picked me up around 11 something, just after I had finished my ortho assessment online, and we went to visit Aunty Edie who was in hospital after surgery. She's recovering very well, Mum was totally shocked, and it was nice seeing that she was getting better at a fairly fast pace. She was complaining an awful lot about the food at the hospital- now that shows that you're ready to go home. Teehee.

Wen then calls after his massive sleep in today, and we headed off to Murdoch library to study. Apparently I motivated him a bit more today to do some serious study... so that was a definite up side. Met up with Sam as well (the dude with the awesome car, whom ironically I beat in a Timezone car racing game... even though I haven't got my license yet, teehee), and later Leon came along. It's entirely awesome that people just meet up and get along, no questions asked, no reason to doubt... but just to enjoy each other's company. This totally makes my day.

So after a few hours of solid studying, we headed out to Terazza and Dome for dinner. YUM. I guess I was pretty hungry, so the food tasted extra good. Wen did a dare and earned $20... but his stomach paid the price. What an epic concoction of food stuffs that had the worse texture in the world... all for the price of $20. Sigh. Pengilly...

Saw Leon try to chase a wild rabbit at Murdoch uni. I still don't comprehend the meaning behind it. How could one ever chase and catch a wild rabbit with bare hands? The rabbit was really cute though. Had a long tail. I like.

Today... highlighted the fact that I was supposed to learn from before. Don't expect, just enjoy. Things happen for a reason, and when they do, just accept it... as it is reality, nothing can be done about it. Usually things that just happen are awesome... so rather than expecting so much out of life, why not just receive pleasant surprises? Today mine was getting to know Wen and Sam better, and simply getting along with them despite not knowing much about them.

I love it when things just click.

Also... before finishing with some yummy dessert pictures... I just have to mentiont that I saw a shooting star on Saturday! Big YAY! It was seriously epic. I made a wish too... ahhh... so awesome.

Hui Hui ^^b

More thinking and happenings

1 week post break... has been quite good. Getting back into the routine of university life and seeing patients (LOVE)... excellent.

However, this week my head has still been up in the air a little. After the fated/coincidental happening on Saturday, I couldn't stop myself thinking way too much again. I hate being a thinker sometimes. Sigh. Anyway, what exacerbated the thinking was that there was another conversation that happened... on Tuesday? It just changed a bit of things... and now all I want is to think less, and let things take its course.

If it is going to happen, it will. Just enjoy without expectations... like what I was supposed to learn from before.

Again, easily said than done.

Anyway, moving on, I enjoyed the company of Winston (homie Ben's brother) till Tuesday, when he left to go back to Adelaide. Awesome guy. We all enjoyed his short stay here, though highly distracting. Gave me an excuse to still be in holiday mode though. Teehee. Grateful and ungrateful at the same time... ahhh, conflicting feelings. Teehee.

The piano is still a very big distraction. Liong and I are still playing it like mad, though he is playing a lot more and finding a lot more new scores. I'll just leach. All good. Hehe. It's awesome to have an instrument sounding in the house though.. makes everything so much more pleasant and calm. I love it.

This week has been productive in clinic and I am totally in love with seeing and treating patients. It just feels so good to see them happy. They are all very nice people to talk to too, which makes my day. Love listening to them... though sometimes it takes up too much clinic time. Teehee. Ahhh... love my job.

Upcoming long weekend! Quite excited! Many plans... but don't know if I want to go forth with all of them. Could take up too much time needed for studying. There are tests and assessments coming up this time around, so it's not just my pure gerkiness but rather a need to study now. Will think about it all later. Now am freaking out about FCD assignment.

Not many pictures taken since last post. Only 1 of another possible dream car model. It is YELLOW. Like, Y E L L O W. How epic is that.




Hui Hui ^^b

Study break end

Still epically tired.
Went out again last night.
Ah... holidays were short lived.
Yet... very enjoyable and somewhat productive, I hope.

So after having a very, very enjoyable but tiring weekend, I started freaking out. I then did some crazy studying over Tuesday-Thursday and got most of what I wanted to get done accomplished. Phew. Though not entirely satisfactory. I was running out of steam. I went to my Bull Creek home to move more furniture on Friday. Mum and Dad helped me out. Now the piano is in the house. EPIC YES. Liong and I have been enjoying its company a lot. I think it will become a very good friend of ours very soon. Ah... I've found my long lost friend again. Hehe. Very exciting. Mum and Dad were really nice to help me move too... love them to bits. =)

Saturday came along, and I just did not felt like studying. I wanted to end my break with a break. Started with one, then hardcore study in the middle, then ending in a break. Sounded pretty good to me. Though now I'm freaking out again... as we seriously go back tomorrow. I have 2 patients booked in for the afternoon too. Should be awesome... hopefully not too stressful. Yeah, patients!! Epic love. Anyway... digressed... back to Saturday. Morning was awesome, as we surprised Febbo with the best birthday present ever! Hehe... he was still in shock after driving at 200+km/hr. So cute. Dance then rolled along... then Chris's birthday, then Ruby Room.

This is where the total carefree state set in! Just enjoying the music and moving to it with Jane... it was epic. Other than the absolutely sleazy men who tried to dance with us... the night was awesome. Like, awesome. Good music, good DJ, good company... I just closed my eyes and felt the music through my movements. SO MUCH FUN. The one relaxing part of my holidays probably...

Today was Buddha's birthday performance at Supreme Court Gardens. A good run, I felt, with a good turn out. The weather fined up for us, which was lucky, and... I think the audience liked our dance. We had people enquiring about our group afterwards... always a good sign?

Hehe... and here we are, at another new start to what was left off.

Rested? Not really.
Ready? As much as I can be.
Excited? Yes, but too tired at the moment.

I just need to sleep well. Just 1 night. Please.

A pleasant surprise struck me yesterday. I think it was something called fate. It may have been a coincidence... but... can some things really be that coincidental? Still trying to figure it out. I loved it though. Made my day. Hehe.

Some random photos on my phone of this week's happenings... totally unrelated, but awesome nonetheless.

Slept over at Jane's- she had awesome kitchenware. I LOVE kitchenware.

Jane's friend, Max. =)

Went for a walk, saw the changes at UWA. I miss campus. =(

At Utopia with my brother... couldn't resist taking photos of these cakes. So delicate.

Hui Hui ^^b

Sleepless fun

Thursday night = 2.5 hours of sleep
Friday night = 6 hours of sleep
Saturday night = 7 hours of interrupted sleep
Average over 3 nights = 5 and a bit

SO TIRED

Parties. Excitement. Enjoyment. Crashing. Brain malfunction. Communication break down. Thoughts jumbled. Too much play, not enough sleep to repair and regulate. All the aftermath of the goodness of the start of the holidays are now creeping up on me. Can't avoid it. Deserve it. Unpreventable.

Thursday night was Allied health.

Friday was a mass clean up day. After the testosterone amp, the house also went into dirt amp. So out came my trusty friends- rag, vacuum cleaner and mop- who helped me cleaned up my room, a bit of the living room and the kitchen. Ahhh... a clean kitchen is just so satisfying to look at/go into. After the big clean, I bid goodbye to Ben (who was flying out that night with his brother, Winston, to Hong Kong for holidays) and walked into the city. Public holiday = lousy public transport day = walk into city. Took only 1 hour. Wore the wrong shoes, raw soles of feet aplenty. Sigh. Finally got back to Bull Creek and met my family and some friends for an awesome dinner. Mum is such a good cook when she wants to be. Ahhh... loved it.

Saturday was a day of fate. I decided that I should go jogging that morning, and luckily, I did. Woke up at 6.30am and went for a jog (utterly tranquil), and received Arthur's text at around 7am about going to Maccas for breakfast. Someone was craving a good fix of unhealthiness. So we met up and went for food, where we happened to bump into Elmer. Totally in the realms of fate. After I went home and watched a few episodes of 1 Litre of Tears, Jane rang and came by. We caught up and had lunch. Another round of fate. After that was the attendance of my dance buddy Grace's wedding, where I witnessed the most beautiful fated event of her marriage to Peter. The couple's wedding was a blast. They were both most definitely, utterly, insanely beautiful; and I enjoyed the celebration a lot. The food, the dancing, the photo taking... just being present was awesome enough. Ahhh... made me feel that fate is definitely in our lives... without being able to explain it.

Sunday morning meant waking up at Belle's place (yet another sleep over... Belle's house is seriously turning into my second home... I feel like I'm troubling her family so much... sigh), and my coffee date with Ron totally died, so I hung out with Belle and her father. It was a nice day and we ate and shopped... and visited Wen at his shop. Fairly spontaneous and random. Spending time with Belle is simply awesome though, so it didn't matter what we did. I had fun.

In summary, I am very tired. Doing too much, sleeping waaaaay too less. Very worth the not sleeping though, I must say. Teehee. Love holidays. Opportunities are endless.

Now is time to start studying. Am officially freaking out. So much to do, so little time. Need to spend time with family too. Sigh. Juggling everything... love it, but also stressed out about it.

Still love holidays =)

Hui Hui ^^b

A break, finally

STUDY BREAK HAS BEGUN
EPIC
TIRED

These past few days have been a bit hectic... but all in all very enjoyable. I love uni. I love my work/patients/friends... hehe... though have been really tired all week.

The good news came- I passed Optech. Drilling fake teeth days are over! Not for other units, but in terms of restorative, it's DONE. Done, dusted, finished. Moving beyond. Seeing patients. Too exciting! I went home for a celebration/reunion dinner with my family on Monday night, as Dad landed in the morning... our family is complete again! Except that I live north... they live south... =( it was fabulous... and I got bubble tea with my brother afterwards, it was awesome!

Hehe... so a night out meant late night study = tiredness piling on at the start of the week. Tiredness just grows exponentially during the week, so there was no way I was to be up to speed during the week. I trudged on- rang my patients and arranged appointments, did my lab work, did all my practical work as the timetable outlined and as planned. Quite a good finish point to have a clean break for 1 week. Fairly satisfactory.

Last night was the mark of the start of the holidays, with Allied Health taking place at Metros. It was... I don't know... fun but also boring in bits. Not just bits. BIG bits. So it was a bit annoying somtimes. Also... the music went from bad to good, to awesome, then suddenly fell to epic fail. That marked the end of my stay there (plus my heels were killing me), and Jane and I headed to Maccas for something to eat. We were hungry. It was awesome, having a good chat with her and eating nuggets. First time I've had them in about 1.5-2 years. Quite satisfying.

Then... the boys stayed over... major testosterone amp at my house. 8 boys and me. 8. OMG. I just realized how many there were. Anyway, they all slept awkwardly around the house while I was in my cosy little room. Teehee. Poor blokes. They weren't even drunk enough to not remember. Teehee.

Anyway... here are some pictures taken over the week. Oh, the metal bin, LIKE SERIOUSLY A HEAVY DUTY METAL BIN was found in Mandurah where I had a dance performance last Sunday. Quite interesting. Mnnmn... and scenary from Matilda Bay, when I took a walk to clear my head and look at the moon. Beautiful. And... the easter bunny my beloved mother got me. =)

Oh yeah, Happy Easter everyone! =)

Hui Hui ^^b

Should just enjoy without expectations

This is been quite a rough week, I must admit.

First, falling sick after a party hard weekend (totally worth falling sick for? Not so sure... retching is seriously not fun). Could not really sleep on Sunday night as I was retching every hour... I would literally be woken up from sleep just to salivate immensely with nothing coming up. H.O.R.R.I.B.L.E. It constantly happened till nearly dawn. In between was added toilet runs. NOT FUN. Woke up the next morning with a fever and had to skip uni. First time ever. Sigh. I'm slowly recovering now... should be 100% good tomorrow. Today, head was still cloudy, though stomach is 100%. Yeah!

Second, failed my last MO prep. It was an epic sad episode because Dr. Potter broke the news to me in a really nice manner... she is one of the most gorgeous tutors. Coming from her just made me feel doubly sad. Also, my hopes were brought up by other tutors/people saying that I may actually have a chance of passing, so failing just made everything crash down harder. I don't know, I was really hoping to get into clinic for resto next week I guess. I'll just have to pass next week to get in after the study break. Sigh, again.

Third, going through the next cycle of PMS. Therefore more emotional, therefore hating falling sick, therefore complaining a lot about little things (that I even get annoyed at myself for doing so), therefore crying a lot more easily. Watched Slumdog Millionaire, cried. Failed optech, cried. Felt like a failure, cried.

Forth, it's on the up side. Teehee... note the last 3 complaints? PMS dammit. Now for the up side of this week. Despite the sickness, cloudiness, blurriness, I managed to get 2 very nice compliments from tutors on my work. One was yesterday, when Terry told me I based a cast very nicely, requiring minimal trimming and the impression was easily taken off (YEAH!); and one was today, when an endo tutor said I prepared my access cavity very nicely... she even asked if I did it myself or a tutor helped me. Teehee. Those were moments that lit up my day. (I value my dentistry to much that everything becomes personal... that's why I don't take failing very well.

So not used to getting compliments, just criticism. Not necessarily constructive ones either.

I guess I need to learn to forget negative things and focus on the positive. I should value compliments more and not just let it slip by. People tend to remember bad/sad things, and not the happy/good things. It's because they do not hurt, so we do not remember.

I need to learn from those that hurt, and make them unhurt; then feel good about those that are pleasant... just feeling it for what it is.

I've known this as something I should do for a long time... easier said than done though.

Also... recently I've been expecting/hoping very hard that certain things would happen to me. They seem to happen to everyone else so easily... so I just wanted a taste myself. Another human trait- wanting what you don't have. Sigh, need to learn to just let things be and go with the flow. Expecting too much just leads to unnecessarily disappointment and emotional drama.

I should just enjoy things that happen, learn from things that happen, accept those pleasant surprises... instead of desiring them so hard to make myself feel so... ... can't even find the word for it.

So many lessons to put into practice... I know I should do it... it's just so hard.

Grow up Hui.

Today just to clear my mind and hopefully get my 100% health back, I jogged into the city. Well, not quite, but a little bit pass the Swan Brewery, nearly under the bridge. It was really nice jogging by the river on Mounts Bay Road. Following the jog, I walked into the city, around the Bell Tower (and checked out the waste-of-money Farris Wheel on the way, another urgh of the week) and along the river once again. Then turning back, looking at the sunset, I bussed home from the city. Too many mosquitos to risk jogging home.

Utterly pleasant.

Also... been introduced to George Nozuka by Belle, who's an awesome ballad R&B Canadian mix Japanese singer. His song, Talk To Me, has been on repeat on my ipod for some time now. Really recommend it. Here are lyrics of the chorus:

Talk to me, talk to me 
Am I doing this right? 
Talk to me, talk to me 
Are you feelin alright? 
I've been waiting for this my whole life 
And here you are tonight 
I've been waiting for this my whole life 
And I can see it in your eyes 
Are you ready to stay the whole night? 
To see the morning light? 
I've been waiting 
And waiting,and waiting 
My whole life

Ahhh... these joys of life... I should value and enjoy.

Hui Hui ^^b