More quotes...

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

- Martin Luther King

Each of us, in the journey through mortality, will travel his own Jericho Road. What will be your experience? What will be mine? Will I fail to notice him who has fallen among thieves and requires my help? Will you? Will I be one who sees the injured and hears his plea, yet crosses to the other side? Will you? Or will I be one who sees, who hears, who pauses, and who helps? Will you?

- Thomas S. Monson

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

- Marian Wright Edelman

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.

- Vaclav Havel

Everywhere in these days people have, in their mockery, ceased to understand that the true security is to be found in social solidarity rather than in isolated individual effort. But this terrible state of affairs must inevitably have an end, and all will suddenly understand how unnaturally they are separated from one another. It will be the spirit of the time, and people will marvel that they have sat so long in darkness without seeing the light... But, until then, we must keep the banner flying. Sometimes even if he has to do it alone, and his conduct seems to be crazy, a man must set an example, and so draw other souls out of their solitude, and spur them to some act of brotherly love, that the great idea may not die.

- Fydor Dostoevsky
"The Brothers Karamozov"

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.

- Patrick Overton

Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Events...

Anyway, to those who read the last post and were curious, I did not give in to the cravings. Haha.
So, today didn't start off as well as I'd have liked. I received this email telling me that my tutor did not receive my assignment for marking although I distinctly remember submitting said assignment together with my group members. So I had to reprint the whole assignment and resubmit it. But it ended well, because the person I had to resubmit my assignment to also remembered ticking everybody's names off when she collected all submitted assignments. So long as there was a record that I wasn't late in handing in the assignment in the first place, I'm OK.
And then John called me at 7 in the morning to tell me he was taking Zepeng to the ED because of what John said was "GI bleeding". Apparently, he was vomiting blood. So when one of the lectures got cancelled because the lecturer couldn't open his powerpoint file (which ironically was on upper GI bleeds), a whole bunch of us went to see him. The ensuing conversation was hilarious what with all the descriptions of what was going on as well as the DDxes we came up with. And then we got chased away by a nurse because there were too many of us in that cubicle. And also probably because we were laughing too loudly and making too much noise. LOL. Oh, and Zepeng was discharged and met us all in the LT after the neuroanatomy lecture.
So after that, we continued with our lectures and then my OHS group went on the mandatory field trip. Lo and behold, we got lost on the way back, ending up in Keysborough on Damien's GPS' directions to Brown's Road, Clayton. LOLOL.
Eventful day, much?

Cravings...

I've a craving for Korean Ramyun. The instant type. With the yummy soup that is the spiciest instant noodle soup I can find. At 12.19 in the morning. HELP!

Ok, I sound crazy. LOL. =D

Friendship...

EDIT: Just because I feel the truth in these words... Hope IS eternal. =)
=D

=)

How true...

Definitely...

You know who you are, BFF!

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I remember a time when writing in classmates' autographs was the craze in school. I looked forward to penning lines in the books with multicoloured pens and decorating those entries with stickers of all shapes, size and colour. Those were the days when my classmates and I would borrow those books home and mull and agonize over the words that would be inscribed. How to make it interesting, exciting, memorable. Because to our 12 year old minds and hearts, the transition from primary school to the mysterious environment of secondary school would inevitably lead to separation and the demise of relationships cultivated in the 6 years we spent together. And that the messages in the autographs would be the only mementoes of those hours spent in the classroom with only the whirring of ceiling fans in the background, of scrapes and tears and laughter and tomfoolery. It was bittersweet; the anticipation of a mature evolution of self against the backdrop of rents and tears in the fabric of childhood friendship.
I miss my primary school friends. The simplicity, naivete and innocence that was so apparent in our interactions, the many games we played during recess, the many blunders we made during PJK and classes, the prank played on a teacher involving a terrapin from science class, the trials and tribulations of the dreaded final exams... I would not be where I am now without these memories to mould me. I miss those times, yet I know that time moves on... as should I. Right?

Really really out of the blue update... =) aka because Fiona bugged me to

Haha, the title is so long it could be a post in itself =P.
Days are getting warmer here. Had to switch on my fan to sleep last night. And it's still only the beginning of spring. This worries me because summer's looking to be a scorching one. =(
I realised that I really have pack rat tendencies. Which extends beyond the usual gifts and nostalgic memorabilia, but also to food. Especially junk food. Whenever any of the supermarkets have discounts on chocolates/biscuits/starbursts/squirms/potato chips, I have this urge to buy them and stock them up. Until I realised recently that I have waaaaaaaaay too much junk in the kitchen cupboard. LOL. And Fi, don't you dare say anything about my weight! =P Think I don't know you? LOL.
Other than that, not much of a difference. Completed the renal/rheumatology rotation. Starting gastro tomorrow. Haha. Which really hammers in the fact that the year is drawing to a close now. Because the rotation after that will be the last rotation of the year and I'll be in anaesthetics/respi. That means exams are uncomfortably near now. Sigh... OSCEs too.
And Ian and Ivy's wedding is in 2 weeks time. LOL. Which will be exciting. =)