Live A Different Life

Suffering from post-exam syndrome at the moment. Symptoms include sleeping and waking up at random hours, staying up despite no need to study, drinking excessive amount of coffee, eating lots of snacks etc. Looking like this...

It's this time of the year again. Tears building up and pouring down in moments of separation. I dedicate this post to Janice Lee, my best friend who is leaving Dunedin in 2 hours.

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:

Officially 4 hours before my second and my scariest exam. Walking into a room with two very-experienced-and-obviously-smarter-than you lecturers is not fun at all. Answering the questions like you know everything when you have no idea what they are talking about is even worse. I think I need to sleep. I think I need to study. I think I need to pray. I think I need Hsiu Ping's secret recipe. I think I need to play Commando 2.

Exams=Stress=Random game

Not recommended for people who are not stressed :)

I just realised that today is officially mantha-sam's one month birthday! To mark my blog's birthday, I decided to make it a cake.


Coincidentally (or not), one of my favourite books at the moment is Eat Cake by Jeanne Ray.


Wanted to blog about it for quite a while, but didn't have the time or opportunity to, so here goes:

Ever been so stressed that you can't seem to breathe properly? Just imagine that you are in the special place, where you can breathe freely and fully relax, be it your childhood home, the beach, your bed. For Ruth, her special place is the warm, hollowed-out centre of a Bundt cake. With her teenage daughter acting like a teenager, her husband fired, her mum moving in with the family on her plate, she seems to visit her special place quite often. To add more joy to her life, Ruth's oft-estranged father and her mother's ex-husband, with two broken wrists joined the chaotic household. It seems like cake is the only thing that can get her out of this situation, literally. Using the sheer power of her mixer, Ruth turned her imagination into reality through baking cakes and saved the day.

Really love the story, how Ruth united her family on a mission to turn the situation around through doing what she truly loves. A really simple, yet thoughtful novel. Ever feel like you are in a overwhelming situation? Stop, think about what you really like to do, think again and act on the situation. Do not let your situation define who you are.

*the teddy bear cake image was taken from http://www.maisiefantasie.co.uk

Once upon a time, in a far away land, a beautiful fairy named Hsiu Ping came up with a secret recipe to getting 100% in exams. It was a very powerful recipe, a recipe that was kept secret for years and years, for fear of exams losing its control on people. After much consideration, the beautiful fairy decided that students do need a little help with their exams so she decided to break the silence and tell the whole world about the secret recipe.

Please be careful if you are unfamiliar with this recipe as it is really really powerful

You will need:
A pinch of knowledge
A bucketload of adrenaline (don't worry, your body will take care of that)
A heaped serving of divine intervention

Instructions:
To use this recipe, run around like a frenzied chicken (to facilitate blood flow to the brain) and pray before taking exams

Looking out the windows of Unicol at 6am in the morning. Love the sunshine, the beautiful weather and the exclusive view into St. Margaret's the scenery.

Coming close to the end of my time in Dunedin, there are things about Dunedin that I will definitely miss: the special student culture (and I am not referring to the drinking culture), the friends, and the adventures I had here.

Michelle T has a new blog! Looks like blogging is the new black. Interesting stories, cute characters and wonderful layout. By the way, Michelle had officially crowned me platypus :)


With three exams lining up next week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday), I shouldn't be blogging but am looking for any reason to escape from...

Talking to May and Jocelyn, I am again reminded that we have not found a place to stay in Napier yet! Have been putting the job off due to exams, will be entering finding-a-place-to-stay mode after exams. Looking forward to next Friday: finish exam in the morning, lunch with Michelle, Janice (Jocelyn, May, Sharon and anyone interested?), hot chocolate and shopping therapy! If anyone is free or need a break from studying, give me a text (this is an order, not a request!)

People, all the best for exams! It can only get less, not more.