I showed joanne this picture cos i thought i looked a bit fat in it, and she asked me how many years ago i took this, i took this like last saturday la. haha but i seriously look quite fat right. i just ate a sirloin steak so maybe it metabolised very fast and was stored as fats real quick. which is like impossible. haha anyway i've definitely become smaller la sian i'm going to swim more in the hope that i'll build up more muscles haha. okk but not impt must swim so i can do triathlon. anyway, some medicine student trying to be funny emailed our yahoogroups this article :

Straits times 15/3/2008, RJC student on varsity applications:"I'm not the only one. Everyone is doing it as well (referring to community service). I don't know what I'd do if I don't get a place to study Medicine. I think I'd just die."

Haha, quite ironic that we're all dying right now. A classic case of damned if you do, damned if you don't.

i don't really understand the community service part. like what pple do community service so that their CV can be nicer so got higher chance to get into medicine ah? haha.. good thing i only decided to do medicine when i was in army. i did super little CIP la. But anyway, so funny, "hahaha if i don't get a place to study in medicine i think i'd just die". last time when i applied, i definitely wanted to get in very very badly. like i call isaac, ask him for advice, ask all around haha and like plan my essay way way way in advanced. but i dun think i'd say i'd die la, but i definitely wanted to get in super bad. you know, if you told me that time that i must study like very very hard, like always do very well for my exams, then i can get in, I CONFIRM SAY YES YES YES PLEASE!!!! but now that i got in. i'm like one of the most slack medicine students around la. my final exam in 2 weeks i haven't started studying. hahhaha. sian diao. ok i'm starting tmr. confirm. i think i'll stay in sch until 10pm. study hard worxxxxx

but anyway, this thing made me realise something, which i've said on my blog before.... the grasss is always greener on the other side, you don't miss the water till the well runs dry. when you're wanna get sth, you keep thinking waa if only i can get this thing, then everything will be good. and like you tell yourself yes yes i will work very very very hard if i can get this thing. but then once you get it, you like slowly start to take for granted.. and then after a while you even complain about it.

like for example got a pretty girl you really super like, and you think to yourself whaa i would DO ANYTHING to be with her.. and then after being with her for 1 year, you start to take things for granted, you don't listen to her when she's talking, you scold her and shout at her when you get irritated etc etc..

another example like every single med students complain about the workload la, when we jolly well knew beforehand that it was gonna be tough. i'm not saying cannot complain, cos it's cathartic, but it's like we should learn to be grateful of what God has blessed us with. Sometimes we get too carried with complaining that we really make it seem like whatever that has been a blessing now seems like a 'curse' or a 'misfortune'.

that's why it's always impt to have the right perspective, don't lose perspective la. it's good to count our blessings also lor. okk enough civics and moral education.

As for Adventure camp... wow i'm so glad i went. at the start, when we were like walking, i was still like a bit sian and worried that there wasn't going to be much adventure, like it'll just be lame stuff.. then soon, started raining, wa shiok, then the terrain became harder wa shiok, then so muddy and sandy wa shiok, then gotta go thru water wa shiok.. u know i seriously enjoyed all the climbing the rocks and like it was really coooool man.... and then came the stunner which you all know about, that we had to stay overnight. at first i was like wa shiok, but more like in a joking manner. then soon it became serious i was like ohh erm okk.. then i started getting cold then i was like crapppppp... but all in all, wow really a fun time man talking cock with jeremy and joel pang seriously damn funny we can keep each other occupied by each other's lame jokes hahhaa. i also told many of my old personal stories cos i was like thinking to myself ah what the heck la we're suffering like mad with no dinner and so cold we gotta last through this might as well spend some time talking about things that would like spark up some interest so that we can keep ourselves occupied.. haha and i was likke thinking what if i die here like that just tell my stories la so okk told many many old stories. which lasted for only like 1.5 hrs. when i finished my story it was like only 11plus la. and we still had to go on until like 6am. i was like what the this is insane laaa... but then i've been thru a few of these kinds of shitty nights i know that once u get through it, it'll be sth so memorable you can talk about it for many years to come so i was just telling myself to like treasure the moment. haha i kept telling pple around me like before u know it we'll be comfy and back in nice environments again so while we were there should just savour every moment of it. haha all in all i really bonded with people and got to know more pple better. that's priceless. thank God He got us stucked in the jungle. hahah..

OK 2 WEEKS TO M.B.B.S 2ND PROFFESIONALS, tmr i start my mugging again!!!