Stress Commences, Sparklers Relaxes.

 Is there a grammar error in my title? I tried saying it out loud to myself and yet sparkler relaxes sounds weirder than sparklers relaxes.

But then again, I wouldn’t say, “I wanna play sparkler,” as it is usually, “I wanna play sparklers!”

I wouldn’t say, “Can you please pass me a sparklers?” as it is clearly, “Can you please pass me a sparkler?”

I know that the examples I’ve given are not exactly Queen-Of-England material, but that’s how I usually talk. Try saying it aloud! It is very Malaysian one.

Damn the english language!

I can’t believe exams are around the corner again. Mark that down, November 15-17. You might have to search for some other blogs to fill up the time you usually spend over here, as I’ll probably be caught up with my studies. (Why, Jolene, what a good girl you are! *pats head*)

But you know, I am NOT going to say that I will “take a hiatus” because the moment I do that, I’ll blog like there’s no tomorrow. Happens all the time. I’m just going to blog blog blog and then stop for awhile whenever I like without the need to announce it to anybody who cares.

Damn the exams!

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I never understand why most of you fancy getting your lungs blackened with accompanying grey white patches? Is it very pretty? .. Whatever rocks your boat. 🙂 Lungs  cancer, that is.

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But do continue with your incessant smoking and entertain students like us during our practical session. It might be gross but it IS fun to see cancer stricken organs flapping about in a cube of formalin. When I mean flapping about, I mean to say that by shaking the cube of formalin, the cancer stricken organs are suspended in the liquid but yet some bits and processes of the organ move a little. Eeew.

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I think this is cancer of the intestine.

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Ahh, the uterus. Smooth nodules all over. Result of too much sex(with too many people). That’s how one of my maids acquired cancer of the cervix. Word has it that she’d sleep with whichever Bangladeshi men(foreign workers) who come a calling(to our home!! argh!) But that’s all back in 1999.

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I’m not going to bore the lot of you with the other profiles of the cancerous organs that I’ve snapped, but i thought this one looked quite nice!

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There is a form of cancer called teratoma. Where the growth arises from all three germ cell layers(the most initial layer of cells when a fetus is a few weeks old). Hence the growth can form bone and hair. eeee.

I’ve seen specimens whereby only the teeth forms. Looks quite sickening.

Anyhow, do forgive me if my explanation seems below par. I’m not a very brilliant student. I need my damn textbook but I’m too lazy to walk the length of my room. And I don’t think flipping through my book just to type precisely correct scientific information on my personal blog is worth the distruption of my, er, blogging flow.

I KNEW that the second tooth(upper right central incisor) that we were instructed to carve would be graded. I didn’t know it would be included in my finals. T_T

The shape is there, but I don’t know how come there’s this sudden need to be a perfectionist in my handy work. I’m not a perfectionist when it comes to my studies. Because I know where I stand. From a so-called excellent student(ah, the good old days of primary school), I dropped to become an average student upon the discovery of the internet. Scraping through with a handful of A’s throughout secondary school(and even the 7A’s for PMR and 8A’s for SPM was quite a shocker to me). I know, i know. I’m SO not the typical kiasu Malaysian chinese student who strive for the extremes. I DO strive. You heard of the saying, “reach for the moon and fall among the stars.” Mine are clouds la. I’m passing. Just not excelling.

I failed alot of my exams back in college. It was a horrid feeling but I think it was because I didn’t take A-levels seriously as it wasn’t conducted by the government. Twas the transition period from government schools to private institutitions. I didn’t take college seriously because there was no standard textbook and everything was in a big jumbled up mess. Furthermore, it was one of the many many foundation courses around unlike SPM which was standardised everywhere.

I’m taking dentistry seriously because I know this is what will feed me and my family in the future. If I don’t pass, I will be deprived of the livelihood I’ve set out for. So yeah, the efforts I’m putting into this course is so much more compared to what I did for my a-levels. I could never study past 11pm back in college. During my year 1 finals, I’m sure most of you would remember, I could stay up till 7am-8am even! Results are definitely better than A-levels(since I only failed twice(damn you biochemistry!) in my entire year 1 as compared to almost all my mid term exams back in college. Fortunately I bucked up towards the end or else I wouldn’t be in this course.)

Oh, look at me ramble.:(

My point is, I know I’m an average student.

There’s this school of thought that goes to say that an academically brilliant dental student is not necessarily a brilliant dentist and a brilliant dentist did not necessarily excel in his studies. I was hoping to be someone who was good with my hands.

It’s alright, but I wanted it to be identical. My father always tells me that I am just like him. Impatient. If I can’t take something apart gently, I’d get frustrated and rip it up.

My dean who was supervising us came over to check on me. He said, “Oh, it’s looking all right!” He suggested that I bring my carved tooth over to the dental technologist for him to have a look, to see if there are any mistakes that he could rectify.
I told him I already did, and heaved a sigh.

Then he started laughing at me. I said shyly, “I am not satisfied.”

“Well, it’s good to never be satistified. This way, you’ll always strive to achieve more!” said my dean.

Very well said. 🙂

Oh well.

Weekends are anticipated. And then they pass so fast. Sigh.

Lie Yuen and I spent our Saturday evening at the park outside our house. We had a few more tanglungs leftover and I bought a box of   sparklers from the Ramadhan bazaar during dinner time.

Surely my tripod had to come along.:) We had good fun with the camera, as you will see later.

Another shot of Lie Yuen lighting up the lanterns.

Decorating the trees with our remaining lanterns.

I had the most brilliant idea! Why not use slow shutter speed and then make shapes with the sparklers??? This is a heart shape:)

Lanterns on a lone tree.

I feel so Harry Potter.

Lie Yuen was constantly tending to the lanterns.

An angled shot.

Spirals!!

Flower! It DOES look like a flower, doesn’t iT?

Butterfly…. couldn’t get the feelers in!

Star!

Supposed to be a pair of lips. But Lie Yuen couldn’t get her horizontal line right, so it looks like a mouth that is talking. Heh.

Lie Yuen’s clover! Looks more like an ace, if anything. 😀

Can you see three of me in the photo? Hahaha. I was trying to write my name. Too slow!

ALMOST. argh. But an upside down one. NoO.

This was taken by the tripod. We were trying to do a heart shape, you see! With an arrow going across… hahaha. Lie Yuen couldn’t do the arrow properly because she was afraid she might hurt my hand. LOL.

DAMN NICE RIGHT?

Supposed to be Mount Fuji la.. But looks more like a rocket.

Then Lie Yuen said, “Wah, you think you so terrer can do KLCC meh!!”.. and I had another idea for a sparkler-drawn-shape.

Presenting to you, KLCC-or something like it, at least.

Supposed to be a flower, but turned out damn nicely as a butterfly’s profile.

She can spell too! It says YUEN, by the way.

Some videos we made by the way:

 

 

And I thought I’d upload some old videos!

Daryl was singing a song for Jon at Coffee Bean the other day. Quite horny one, and to the tune of YMCA!
You see, we’ve got this inside joke that overuses the phrase, love you long time.

It’s like saying thank you, but instead we say, Love you long time! And as a reply? Fuck you deep deep!

Here’s an example of an conversation between Daryl and Justin in PD:

Daryl: Could you please pass me the barbecue sauce?
Justin: Here you go!
Daryl: Love you long time!
Justin: Fuck you deep deep! 🙂

hehe. Use your imagination la when you see the videos.

Enjoy. Turn up your speakers.

Other than that, nothing much. So it is back to the books for me!