5th year exams all over again

Looks like I've abandoned my blog for much longer than I thought I would... Study in Otago hasn't been going as smoothly as I would have liked. Fingers crossed 2nd time's the charm. Studying harder than I ever had this year cos my life and a buttload of money depends on it. Nobody's going to read this for months anyways, I bet. Hopefully by then I'd have passed the exams and gone on to be a trainee intern, or even started working... based on the frequency I'm making blog posts.

2nd post from New Zealand ;p

Hiya everyone,

Bet it'll be days before anyone reads this. Life here's been good, the people here are mostly friendly and helpful. I've completed 4 runs out of 6 so far, feel kinda incompetent sometimes, otherwise its all good. Probably won't do much blogging in the near future but I'll do my best.

I've been having to travel for quite a bit... and in about 5 minutes time I'm going to be off to the Kenepuru hospital for some stupid tutorials and lectures about psychogeriatrics. I miss the good old days where all I had to do was mug on theoretical stuff... I regret not studying harder. Neurology's biting my ass at the moment... Don't think I like it very much at all.

Anyways that's it for now. For latest pictures from New Zealand please visit
www.picasaweb.google.com/litway

Signing off
Jacob

Writing from New Zealand

Hello you all, I bet nobody reads my blog anymore...

Anyways, here I am finally in New Zealand! I'm going to be studying in the Wellington School of Medicine which is under the University of Otago. Took a 9 hour flight from Malaysia to Auckland with Carl Lin. It was pretty hard breaking to be leaving home, leaving Malaysia, leaving all my friends. Yew Weng and Melissa came to send me off at the airport. It was the first time I took a flight, all along I was pretty worried about being stopped by the customs officers but everything went pretty well.

The flight itself was fun and enjoyable, getting to fly with Carl Lin. There were meals provided, and a cool LCD computer to watch movies in front of everyone's seats. We arrived at Auckland at 12:30pm (local time) and then walked over to the domestic flights section to catch the next plane. Her to Wellington and myself to Christchurch.

So here I am now in a hotel in Christchurch, I met up with Cheok Soon and Rae Na last night and we cooked up ABC soup and fried cabbage and ate them with rice. Slept at 1am and woke up at 12pm this afternoon... I must have been really tired, or maybe not accustomed to the time here yet. After all, 12pm here is about 7am back in Malaysia.

That's it for now I guess, I'll be updating my blog further with more adventures and experiences from New Zealand. Stay tuned!


Jacob

2006, a new year huh?

Its been a while since I've last posted.... My blog's becoming some nest for advertisment. I'm just home from teaching tuition. My tutee is now in form 2, everyone's taken one step forward. I've been pretty busy of late...

Studying's getting more stressful. I felt I didn't do well enough in Endocrine... even worse so in repro. Had my mind bogged down by some stuffs starting 2nd week of repro.. my b'day celebration and all... It was fun, perhaps I'll post some of the photos here when I get them processed.

As for my New Year's resolution:

1. Pass all exams and summative assessments!
2. Cut down some weight... this one's gonna be hard
3. Improve on my communication skills
4. Get into Auckland Uni (or at least matched to it)
5. Eat yummy foods which I've never eaten before

Ah Long Bukit Beruntung

Low on cash?
Not enough money to make ends meet?
Need the little bit extra to make that final bet?

These guys wanna help, enjoy! =p

Ah Long

Chinese chess huh.....

Woke up pretty early today, got myself ready and drove to the KTM station to get to uni. My car's not been acting properly lately so well... better not risk driving too far. There's the IMU cup chinese chess competition today. Chaozer had asked me to participate last week, so I took it up. Wasn't too hard to learn considering I had the basics from chess, but I had to familiarize myself with it.

In the first game, we were up against sem 1. I was placed in the third board... Was winning pretty much.. until my opponent came up with a time crisis! Sheesh... I lost because I tried to play my opponent out of time... ended up blundering and losing big time. We went to have lunch, Chaozer, Jackson, Yi Ning, Jin-Yu and I. Jin-Yu came to support and cheer for us.

In the second match, I ran out of time and blundered... demanded a draw, but to no avail... in my desperation, I missed a chance to draw the game and lost it. The third game... I was down on time... losing, I kept my calm and played as quickly as possible. I was winning when my opponent's time went up... So, I won ^^

Fourth game wasn't much to talk about... the pharmacy students apparently couldn't wait to lose and get out of there to go play DotA... sheesh...

For the fifth game against sem 5, I had Ven Gee substitute me against Teng Hong... He played pretty superbly and won. Chaozer won 4 games and drew one...

Our batch ended 3rd... Not too bad really, its a nice experience... and we improved from last year's results of 4th place.