I'm in class now! Ungodly sight surfaced and I'm currently bored to death...

Urghh... How I wish the weekend is here now... T.T

If you hadn’t noticed, the speech bubble on the banner of my blog changed to something like this:

 
Yeap, no more holiday, as Year 2 classes have started.

Last Monday marked the commencement of a new semester for the second year of my LLB programme. As we are returning students, we do not get any kind of orientation. Hence, when I turn up for class on last Tuesday (the first class of the semester), I literally got a nervous shock (and certain degree of star struck). 130 students attended the lecture and 70% of them are new faces to me, since 2 other intake was merged with my Intake for Year 2.

Throughout the entire week, I was sticking with my 1st year intake’s friends. So far, only 3 person whom i had yet to know had talked to me… and I was pretty nervous when they did so. Sigh. Everytime I encounter strangers or new faces, i will be very nervous because I felt insecure to expose myself to something or someone new. The only chance where i get to know my new classmates a little more is during one of the tutorial, where our lecturer asked us to introduced ourselves. Hope I can get close with some of them soon.

New faces aren’t the only challenges I faced. Tougher subjects, too, screwed me good in the past week. Aside from having a hard time adjusting myself from the holiday mood to study, the subjects in my second year are way tougher than the first year’s. 2nd Year lecturers are told to be less “spoon-feeding” to us than the 1st Year lecturers, which is a good move to train us to be independent while learning, in order to adapt ourselves into the foreign University teaching style. As a result of such good move, bullet-speed lectures made most of us confuse and we miss out many important points, and we are expected to research ourselves on the points we had missed. Sigh, hope I can get used to the speed as soon as possible.

2nd year does not seems fun to me, not when compared to my 1st year… I miss my 1st year badly. I miss the craziness in my 1st year intake: the people, the happenings, the family-ness! I miss the moments where we can literally sing together in the law ball, where we go picnic in the urban jungle, where we sing happy birthday while there isn’t anybody’s birthday, and when we greeted “Selamat Pagi Cikgu” while lecturers are walking into classroom, and “Terima Kasih Cikgu” when they walked out, almost bursting their stomach in laughter. Every each of the little things in year 1 made us looking forward to attend class.

Heck! Those are the good old memories that are meant to be kept. Whats real and present is the stress and the nervousness that I will need to cope with.

Hope that Year 2 will turn out to be greater than I expect. Amen. =)

In case you don’t know, yours truly had a 4 months long coma semester break after the much anticipated first year finals. Being a lazy ass In order to reward myself for the hard work over the exam period, I choose to relax in the 4 months time rather than going for internship or having part time job... well… I can have all the working time I want when I’m graduated, right?

So here’s what I had done throughout the semester break:

1. Had my Wisdom tooth extracted (26th June)

 
2. Went visiting Muar, Johor (8th July)

 
3. Went visiting Malacca (Part 1) (Part 2) (9th - 11th July)

 
4. Registered for a gym membership (20th July) and had been working out since then

5. Had my other wisdom tooth extracted (27th July)

 
6. Went chilling at Genting (4th – 5th Aug)

7. Went visiting Penang Island (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (21st – 27th Aug)

8. Went visiting Singapore (27th – 29th Aug)

 
9. Admitted to Hospital Selayang for Liver Biopsy operation (5th – 7th Sept)

…and of course, TONS of outing:

@ Skybar for chilling out after exam

 
@Klang for Bak kut teh(s)

@ Taipan for dinner / gathering

 
@ Bandar Sunway for Steamboat(s) (Xiao Fei Yang!!)

@ Sunway Pyramid for lunch / shopping(s) / gathering

@ 1 Utama for Darlingdar gathering

@ Sri Petaling for secondary school friends gathering

…and much more undisclosable outings XD

Having so much fun time, I’d be REALLY glad if the 4 months break were to be longer… but you know what they say, the reality is always cruel…

…and my semester break is ending today.

Epic FML T.T

In the recent years, my prolonged Hepatitis-B virus infection (which I carry since birth) had shown signs of activity to my doctor. Doctor checked and recommended me to take a liver biopsy test, to which I agreed upon.

And therefore, I was granted a 3 days 2 nights vacation at Hospital Selayang!! <3

Although I had been to a hospital for n-th time, this was the first time I actually get to stay there, at a ward. So it actually excites me a little bit. LOL.

On my ward patient suite

The needle that is poked into me for 3 days long ==” for blood taking and anaesthetic injection purposes

Tea time… Tea with donut

Throughout the stay, I saw people checking in and out of the ward. Some checked in in a emergency state, some checked out in order to be sent home and wait for their death, some even died in the ward itself (where dramatical cries of their families can be heard)… one of the most unforgettable patient for me is the uncle who is waiting for his time to come, and in the process of waiting, he is literally moaning in pain non-stop. From the moment I checked in to the day I checked out, he never stops his moans, even while he is sleeping! In fact, his moaning gets louder at night, to the extent I can hear him even when I’m blasting music through my IPod. As much as I know that he cannot control it, I kinda hated him for a while because thanks to his loud moaning, I only get to sleep for 2 hours on the night before my operation…

…and therefore the huge eye bags.

Before going into the operation room, changed into the operation white robe

Speaking of operation, the liver biopsy operation went very smooth and well. Doctor and nurses praised me (like I’m a kid, LOL) because I cooperated and did not complained much although the lack of sleep, and also because I helped the patient next to my bed (who is partially immobilized) to move around.

The doctor who conducted the biopsy on me is fairly young, in her late 20-s, and the doctors who monitored my progress are fresh graduated doctors. Despite being fresh grads, they showed excellent professionalism and passion to their job. For the nurses, they are (out of my expectation) extremely kind and friendly, even when compared to private hospital nurses. Thanks to them, I had a fairly great stay at the hospital. No complains here. XD

However, the nurses cannot talk to me like 24-7… so I’ll have to find some other thing to do besides sleeping, eating and online through my handphone…

…so i brought this to hospital:

Me is Nerd. Me is a Hardcore Nerd™.

Right after I came back from Penang, I got myself ready for another classmates trip to Singapore… that night itself! >.<

We sat KTM to Singapore, which takes around 8 hours… we slept on the bunk bed in the train… totally a whole new experience for us!

Disembarking from the train to the custom checkpoint

The colourful (and much cleaner) city of Singapore

 
…I mean much, MUCH cleaner!!!

 
The much advanced MRT which practically goes to every corner of Singapore 

 
The Banana Leaf Rice for dinner

    
Orchid Road, the Singapore’s counterpart of Starhill

      
The breathtaking Clarke Quay

It was a regret we did not get to experience much of Singapore since we’re really (REALLY) short of time… the entire trip lasts 2 days 1 night… and with no prior plan, we practically decides what we’re going to do there while we’re ALREADY there. ==”

But the main reason why I went to Singapore anyway (despite knowing these beforehand) is because it was the farewell trip for 2 of my lovely classmates, which will be heading to UK soon (by then, now they’re already there)!

Amelia

 
Malino Malina Maloni Manili Malini 

I will miss them ALOT >.<

…and of course, I will also miss the craziness that comes with them in a package! <3