Archive for July, 2007

Strength and patience keep life going on…

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

2 weeks has passed since selectives had started. It was like
yesterday when we stepped out of MPH after renal assessment. Time really flies.
I think I should say that it “pecut”…=)…like a rocket…haha…

 

The weekend back home was a joyful one. Filling with energy
and courage to go back and solve the “problem”. Had a long long talk with my
pa..especially the time spent in the car when dad drove me to collect the
tourism things, and the time spent when I cycled beside my pa when he
jogged…Although things didn’t turn out the best it could be, but it certainly
turn out better than what I hoped for…Thanks pa for sharing ur thoughts with
me, for confiding in me while giving me advice for the future…As for ma, I’ll
always be by ur side to listen to ur “grumbles”…That’s all I can do now…And
trust me, I’m a good listener. Hope that I could relieve ur burden by listening…

 

Came back to Uni after replenishing my energy from home…Busy
schedule awaiting for me. Scared and apprehensive at first with the workload
and energy-needy activities. The first few days of selectives weren’t too happy
as there were many things left undecided. But, things turn out well when we
keep hanging on till the end. Ahhh….=)…at last, on Friday, everything was
settled…=)

 

Thanks Maggie for designing the bookmarks and altering the
colours and designs according to our needs.

Thanks Mus for drawing the Icons.

Thanks Chow for suggesting the meeting to finalize the
decision to Perhentian Island.(it made my work
much much easier—can’t wait for the perhentian trip)

 

Then, Saturday was Mapcu swimming comp. Having all the
butterflies in my stomach before the comp, I certainly wasn’t in the best mood
to swim. I had the feeling of “putting worms into own anus”—according to Jackie
is “finding ur own trouble”…cos I decided to join 2 individual events and 1 relay (due to
unknown reasons—maybe just to try)…It was a bit taxing as I had not swim that
much of competitive events before. A bit regretted when I reached INTI..Feel
nauseated, I kept asking to go home. Even Paul and Mus who went there as
supporters find it funny tho…hee… New lessons learnt!!! “Things always turn out
to be better than expected when we always prepare for the WORST”..It proved to
be absolutely correct…I turn out to win 2 bronze medals. I won my first ever
individual swimming medal. 100m breaststroke…I am a kampung swimmer…A lousy
diver as mus always laughed at me for having big splashes when I “plunged” into
the water…Altho I won cos there were only 5 competitors in that event, but I’m
already contented…Before the competition, all I had in mind was—first, jumped
into the water and be thankful that my goggles are still on. Second, being able
to finish the 100m and not cramping halfway through the swim. And lastly,
getting out from the pool…It was a super-duper bonus when I even get a medal
from it…ok…I’m just happy that I’m lucky…=)…Furthermore, our IMU swimming team
even got 3rd place overall….What a day!!!=)

I called my dad when I finished my first event to “demand”
for encouragement…haha…I got to talk to my mum too…I felt so happy when my dad
passed his phone to my mum…=)…

That night’s dinner was curry fish
head…Super-delicious…..Ahhh………

What a day!!!!

 

The second week of selectives went on full of activities
too…with cheerleading practice, basketball training, volleyball and etc.
etc….Not to forget the kite-flying time, meeting up with my dad for just
tiny-30-minutes…getting loads of mangosteen and rambutans…and falling sick on
Wednesday…slept for 13 hours on that day, cough and flu came back to find me
again…was depressed for one day…and then sprang back to happy-chia huan on
Friday…

 

Sorry Mus, for getting angry on Wednesday cos I really
wasn’t in the mood to play with u and listening to ur stupid jokes…Sometimes, u really deserve
some scoldings although u were only joking.

 

One more week to the completion of Malaysian Studies
Project…=)

Two more weeks to Perhentian Island Trip…=)

Two weeks and three more days to going back home…=)

Three more weeks to starting of Sememster 5…=/

Six more months to leaving IMU…=(

 

P/S : - Always prepare for the worst, and hope for the
best!!!

- Friends are of utmost
importance when we’re away from home…

Random….

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

=)

It has been such a long time i had this kind of feeling. A feeling of relief and happiness. A feeling of bravery in facing oncoming problems.

First of all, I have something to announce here. I think I have recovered from my chronic cough!!!Coughing for less than 5 times in a day was really an achievement for me…haha…progressing from "poly-cough" for almost 6 weeks to "oligo-cough" to "an-cough"… I’m going to win the battle against the "cough-devil"!!!"cough-cough" is going to disappear from my life!!!nobody will laugh at me and say tat i have tibi again…i don have to worry about spreading it to other ppl again…I don have to worry about disturbing my friends in lectures again….
Haha…maybe i’m blogging too much about cough…But,it was really a "big-thing" in my recent life…Hmmmm…Will i feel uneasy or miss my "cough"??cos i’ve already used to coughing…"cough" have been accompanying me for such a long time…-.-lll….*sweat*.. Chia Huan is thinking too much again…But, It’s surely nice to not have something always irritating ur throat, triggering ur cough reflex, having to cough in the middle of the night and wake up, to not have a nice, deep sleep….hmmm…nice!!

Thanks to Paul’s antitussive pill.I think it really works…=)
Thanks to my housemate, sansan’s mucolytic pills…=)
Thanks to Dr O & C. altho after giving me 8 drugs after the 2 visits i still cough for 2 months…=)
Thanks to Han for putting up with my "forever-annoying-coughing". I don think my lung is "hollow" like wat u always say when i cough really badly. I’ve got a "strong-lung" u know? hohoho…=) and by the way, u, me and winnie aren’t of the same height!!!haha…
Thanks to all my friends who were concerned and cared about me…=)

Enough of blogging about "coughing"…I’m sure u find it darn boring about seeing the word "cough" a million times up here…anyway,

I’m the healthy Chia Huan again…=)

Tomorrow is renal’s EOC…Renal is really a killer system. Although we only had 22 lectures, but it still pain us because the physiology and pathology are really hard… Hope that the entire M205 will survive through tomorrow’s paper…Good luck everybody!!

We’ll be getting our reproductive EOC results tomorrow too… The graph for the entire batch results is out on the notice board and we have 126 ppl with A and 30+ with A-…FYI, our total number of students is 180..So, it’s around 70 % of the entire class got A, A- results…Don’t play play with M205…indeed, after knowing this i felt happy to be in a batch with so many good students.. But, on the other hand it worries me too cos i will have to fight really hard to get into the Partner Medical School that i want…As u see, Sem 4 is ending and we’ll be applying for our PMS in 2 months time which will determine where will I be probably in the next 5 years…So, which PMS will i end up in is really an important issue to me…

All i can do is just do my best and hope for the best…=)

Jogging in the commonwealth park can make me happy too…(guess i’m an easily happy person and easily sad as well)…Have been seeing a lot of batchmates jogging recently…Jem, Paul, Seb, Zam, Jaslyn, Uwen, and Kee Fong!!!I donno wat makes me happy by seeing them jogging also…Just felt that being in an environment with ppl that i’m familiar with makes me happy…=)

Basketball makes me happy too…Not forgetting to mention that volleyball which i just took up since sem4…Thanks to Lishan and lydia for inviting me into the team…Lishan for teaching me all the techniques…Setting, digging, serving, spiking and "zuk"..haha…although i injured my "precious-thumb" last week, and it still hurts until now…I still like it….

"Physical health is affected by one’s emotions"…That’s wat a friend told me recently…A friend who was brave enough to tell me wat he has in his mind…A friend who triggered me to face the problem which i have been trying to hide and avoid recently…A friend who made me happy…Should i be saying thanks to this friend? I guess yes…Although he maybe too straightforward, not subjective, not thinking in other ppl’s shoes, but i still gotta thank him for reminding me that avoiding a problem is not solving it…Thanks…

San ge is coming back from Sabah!!!I’m going back to JB tomorrow!!!Together we shall solve the problem…or more importantly if we really can’t solve it, we should learn to live with it happily….

Learn to live with it happily…..=)

P/S: Harry potter is out!!!!!!=)=)
It seems like there are too many good things happened recently which made me to have no reasons not to feel happy….Yeah…I know, It’s Harry Potter’s magic!!!=)