Live A Different Life

7 days, 4 cities later, I am finally back in Napier! Graduation was great with rain, friends, family and fellow graduates :) Good old Dunedin with its super cold weather and super rainy face reminds me of the good old times being a scarfie. Go Dunedin!

Some pictures from the weekend






It was great meeting up with old friends & new friend, ie baby Alex! I felt like the graduation weekend was the busiest day(s) ever in my life. Dinner and sleepover at Jocelyn and Sharon's flat on Friday night, picked up Alex and my parents on Saturday morning, picked up regalia, makeup put on by experts, Jocelyn and Sharon, put on regalia, rush to Town Hall 10 minutes late (and apparently our names were called out *oops*), sat for 1 hour and a half for 5 seconds of fame, pictures with family, friends and lecturers, dinner @ Lone Star, reunion at Jocelyn's flat, sleep, more photos the next morning, more reunion at Jitsu, brief visit to Microbiology building and onto the bus back to Christchurch, sleep, flight to Wellington, met May for 2 hours and bus back to Napier. Whew, I felt tired even just typing all the things I have done in the past few days. I feel like I am getting older...oh no~

I am finally, officially a pharmacy graduate. Thank you, thank you
*Smiling and waving*


Our results came out today and I managed to pass all the papers! No more studying, no more assignment-induced stress, no more burning midnight oil. Really thank God for seeing me through these four years in uni.

As celebration for surviving uni, I finally gathered together my lazy bones and went outside. The sky is so blue. The weather is so sunny. The gardens are so beautiful. It seems like the world has changed quite a bit since the last time I came out of my turtle shell. Went to Christchurch Art Gallery. Only one word to describe the place: beautiful. Looking through the paintings, some of them look so real that I thought they were photographs. Such attention to detail, it was awesome. As we were leaving the place, we saw some kids getting ready for a show. Apparently it is an initiative to integrate cultural studies into school curriculum.


Random pictures taken throughout the year :)

For once, I woke up super duper early at 9am (hey you, don't laugh. It's rude). Decided that shower is a good wake up tool so got all my stuff ready and moved into the bathroom. Walking innocently, suddenly found myself...

My head hit the floor, my foot hit the shower door, my hands swinging around trying to grab hold of something --> so embarrassing. Results: head concussion (ok, maybe not that serious...possible seizure?), bleeding foot and a super red face. Instead of start studying early and be super motivated, I ended up...

Advice for myself: Do not wake up early to study, do not study too much to the point that my brain is filled with knowledge until body-to-brain weight becomes imbalance leading to fall. Should sleep more, study less and eat more (to balance the weight of the brain)!

Despite sustaining serious injury, I thank God that I managed to spend some time reading through the notes. Hours before the exam, trying to squeeze in some pharmacokinetics but it was too boring so decided to switch to Thomas Rades' lecture. Two 10 marks questions today: liver pharmacokinetics and Rades' stuff. I just finished studying liver pharmacokinetics before switching to Rades! Really thank God for His blessing and guidance :)

With my next exam in less than 2 hours, I should be feeling stressed. Shouldn't be blogging and should be studying/praying/eating breakfast/preparing stationery. I just realised that I have a bad habit of blogging before exams. Not sure if it is due to low stress level or excessive stress. Could be a result of 'head trauma' from the fall yesterday (more details after my exam). Favourite song of the day:

I always thought that I am cool. Not girly-cool but neutral gender-cool, Sharon-cool. My heart was shattered (jokes) when I was told "You are not cool. You are sweet." My heart was screaming "I wanna be cool, I wanna be cool. Sweet is not my thing!" Well, I guess now I can finally kiss goodbye with my illusion that I am a cool girl.

Listening to 'Beautiful in Your eyes or mine?' (Composed by *drumroll* Mrs Yeo!), I realised that at times in life, it's easy for us to say "I am too ....., I want to be ......" The comment that Jacqueline made was really true: "We will never stand before an artist and say aiyo why your art so ugly." Why should we then, do this in front of God, the mighty artist? We are beautiful in God's eyes. God created us and He obviously knew what He was doing and was good at His job.

Let this serves as an encouragement to everyone out there: God created us to be good, smart, talented, handsome, pretty, cool, sweet, awesome, able to pass exams with flying colours so do not ever believe that you are not good in any way.

Enough of the serious stuff, now on to the real topic of the day: HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHAZA!

You have really being a blessing in my life and I am glad that I had the honour of getting to know you better throughout our time together in Dunedin. Continue to be God's light, holding out the truth in the darkest place and shine like a shiner!

Got home last night and saw this next to the lift

Not :) at all, considering that I live on 8th floor. Took me a while to reach my room due to the fact that I was quite tired. Just when I was resting and trying to catch my breath, the fire alarm went off!!!

1ish in the morning, off I go again, down the stairs onto the field in front of Unicol. We waited in the cold for more than half an hour because some really "smart" students think that it's funny to smear margarine on the walls and put the remainder in the microwave and turn it on.

Well, it's NOT funny:
1. the whole place just smelt burnt
2. the false fire call out costed $1300
3. we all have to walk back up the stairs to get back to our rooms

Totally did not appreciate the humour behind the 'joke'. Turned out that I was not the only one that think it's not funny. The deputy master aka the boss aka the person running the place locked us outside and semi-screamed at us for 5 minutes.

This morning, Alabaster Box from Australia came to Nations Christian Church! Loved the instruments, leather jackets and cool hairstyle.