made.good.again

Liming you remind me of ME when I used to clamour after "encouragement notes" from you and pohlyn during my immature days (which is like yesterday? and still going? haha..)

So here’s a post dedicated to thanking you… (I have to admit you appeared a lot in my thoughts when I was reflecting over the past 6 years… this was for Returnees’ Nite last night). Well there’s at least 5 things (I’m sure you can remember more feel free to add…)

1. thanks for being so generous with your car and trusting me to drive it when you were too sleepy to drive… which inspired me to buy a car and be generous with it also… hoho…

2. thanks for making me watch the Thai karaoke songs and look at the mission trip photos and sit through your stories about the trip… which inspired me to go for the trip the following year and loving Thailand and Thais now…

3. thanks for cards, letters, cassettes (Oct 99, Apr 99), CDs (take my hand and walk), bread from Daimaru, TimTams during LTC… yes there were A LOT of cards and letters from you that are sitting in my "sentimental shoebox" and the things you say are unfolding in my life (like as if you can see my future). if you happen to know who I’m marrying please write a card soon.

4. thanks for teaching me about the Golden Rules of peoples and relationships. Still remember them and applying… with the right heart =P

5. last but not least, thanks for teaching me the REAL issues in facing life, and showing me that not only it is possible to continue to live a life that pleases God, but that obedience is essential for success in life!

love you lots!

(pay me later)

counting my blessings over this exam season:

1. my favourite brother (below 21yo category) totally brightens up my evenings - an amazing cook (has been cooking dinner and gets me to put the finishing touch - add salt, etc and generously says that we’ve prepared the dinner TOGETHER) and fun dinner company (he’s quite funny and I’m quite funny so it’s like doubly fun).

2. going through three shoeboxes filled with cards and letters that OCFers past and present have written to me and getting inspired and encouraged all over again from how much these people loved and believed in me, like they can see God’s Word echoing through my life…even before I saw it.

3. an email from my OCF twin sister (born 2 days apart) who’s in Singapore right now… praying for my exams (as she would each semester, an annual tradition since our days of studying in College Square together)…

4. inspired by a poem that a dear friend wrote, how each day we are becoming a woman of grace though facing a tough world…

5. seeing God work in a friend’s family…

6. music practice for returnees’ nite!!

7. diagnosing depression in a patient while chatting with him (hadn’t been picked up by the doctors)… and made a difference in his life? maybe…

8. catchup session and praying with my beloved mentee…

9. continuous supply of Pods chocolate (energy supply while studying) by my fav peoples…

10. best friend coming over to cook me lunch before she leaves for her mission trip tomorrow night! she inspired me to see God’s heart for the nations and has showed me what love in action really is, how I thank God for her!

18 days to exams…

choosing to give praise to Him everyday has opened my eyes to the good things that continue to happen each day, I haven’t developed that tunnel vision syndrome that comes with the impending anxiety-provoking "E" word…

certainly not a coincidence that the running theme in prayer meet, OCF, and church (especially during praise & worship) had been of bringing a sacrifice of praise, not because of what I feel but because of who He is and deserves.

"forget about everything and just focus on Him? easy to say…"
"in Him, it starts with saying first…" (HsuEn, 2005)

God spoke the world into being. He spoke promises into my life, so may my life be an echo of His Words. Because He has spoken, so can I speak into my own future.

There’s wise sayings, which I live by.

And then there’s…

"The more you study, the more you have to remember…

The more you have to remember, the more you forget…

The more you forget, the more you don’t know…

The more you don’t know, the more you have to study…

So why study?"

It’s a vicious cycle. HELP!!

Will be intentionally absent from the blogworld until I come off the vicious cycle.

Just had a surgical tute with this surgeon who’s notorious for his appalling bedside manners, but seems to get away with it coz he’s so good at what he does, like an operation that normally takes 5 hours, he can do it in TWO!

He’s really like this chinese ah pek…

At the tutorial (him and 4 of us)…

Surgeon: Now tell me, what’s the half-life of the parathyroid hormone? (looks at me)… YOU!
Me: (totally no idea).. Err.. 30 days?
Surgeon: WHAT!!! THIRTY DAYS!! The patient will die already!! (sic) *looks at my groupmate*… YOU, tell me…
Groupmate #1: Err.. 2 weeks?
Groupmate # 2: Err.. 5 days?
Groupmate # 3: 48 hours?
Surgeon: It’s 8 hours!!!! Ahh.. I don’t think I want you as my interns next year, you better be a nurse! (how condescending)… Did you hear about the intern who took care of a patient and didn’t do such and such… He was deemed impotent!!

No one dared correct him…

What a day… It’s a good thing we know he’s a bit like that so no one took it personally…

Am experiencing an 8/10 headache that starts in the occipital area radiating around bilaterally to the temporals. It started before dinner but got worse after I ate and ended up feeling really nauseous. Since I hate feeling nauseous I tried to make myself vomit and succeeded in throwing up my dinner (all of it). And now there’s this burning sensation in my throat because of the pH 2.0 hydrochloric acid from my stomach.

Felt better after vomiting but headache’s really really bad…

Stared at the lights and I could look at it without wincing. Good. No photophobia. No rash. No fever. Phew… I don’t think I have meningitis.

Looked in the mirror. Not bad for someone who just threw up dinner. I don’t think I looked fat either. Phew… not bulimic.

I think it’s tension headache from stress. Urghh.. I need 1000mg of Paracetamol… but just ran out…

*switches mind to non-conventional practice of medicine - prayer*

I don’t like how my mind’s been trained to think.

6 weeks to finals *eeekssss* but can’t wait for the final finals to be over!

I’ve been studying…

About the 5F’s of the causes of abdominal distension:

Flatus
Fluid
Fat
Faeces
Foetus

So next time if you feel bloated… think the five F’s… =)

NB: the last one does not apply for people with XY chromosomes.