Brain Dissection

This is the pretty much delayed post about my brain dissection class..

I'll let the pictures below speaks for itself:)

That's just part of the brain.

We were asked to identify the brain parts. Hence we were taking out each part of it to find out which part is which..

It's a cow brain btw.

After we are done with it..

I am allowed to play with it for a bit..

Tore the brain apart with my hands:)

The white matter looks like tofu and it feels like tofu when you touch it=P

The treadmill

Mid sem break came to an end and I'm back to campus.

Yeah I am not really excited about going back. But then again, I have a month left before my semester break. That means my finals is in one month time too. Yay?

Lessons were rather dull and draggy today for some reason. Might be due to the mid sem break hangover. LOL!X)

The night before I baked=D



Oh gosh. I wanna gooooooooooooooooooooo

The break and Judgement Day?

Today is Judgement Day!*grins*

I'm looking forward to bid goodbye to the month to May and say hello to the month of June although that will mean that my finals days will be drawing nearer and nearer to my door and it will also mean that it'll be the end of my second year semester one. Wow. Time really flies! I am still trying to grasp the whole idea that time is ticking faster than ever.

So yeah, I do not want the world to come to an end today. So God please give me an extension since I have a lot of duties here. I still need to save the world

So my break isn't all about catching up with assignments. Maybe for the first few days I am always in front of my laptop typing away. But after I am done with another research paper lit review I can almost feel the burden half lifted up from my shoulders although I am only 50% done with the other research paper which will be due on the 3rd of June (again, another reason why I want an extension to live, God. Not only I love my life, and I am making full use of it. I put in effort in my work and I bet you don't want it go wasted. Actually I don't want to have it go wasted). LOL!

Not like I believe in those 2012 and world will come to an end soon crap. It might come to an end, only if God swipe all all men in the world first. But that will only happen when the Y chromosomes disappear completely from the earth a billion years later and I have like how many years more to live? And if there's no library or books anywhere in the after life world, I don't think I wanna die just yet.X)Unless awesome and incredible authors are there to write and publish a book it'll be uber cool. Damn I shouldn't get carried away with those thoughts those awesome authors will be needed here to inspire others=)

No kidding. Not being sexist or something but the Y chromosomes will extinct one day. Biomedical researchers are trying to find another way out to it now.

Anyhoo, I had a movie night with Jyun on Wednesday to wind down*grins* We watched Fast Five. It was a pretty spontaneous plan. Anyhoo, it was a good movie. I super love the speed=D

We had our shooting for our video assignment which will be due..erm..I don't know when. Seriously, I don't remember given much of a thought for that subject. Pretty redundant subject cause we are learning the same thing and same terms over and over again. They should offer something cool for our compulsory subject (e.g., web designing, philosophy, anthropology, world history). Again, people will grumble more if they happen to ask us to do deeper stuff like philosophy, anthropology or world history. Only freaks have interest in those apparently. Heh. Sarcasm.

My definition for compulsory subject that they offer: A subject which is meant for you to feel obligated to bother about it and it's pretty much very redundant when comes the stuff that you are going to learn. In short, it's a utter waste of time.

I gotta stop ranting.

Gotta. get. started. with. work.

Have a pleasant weekend=)

Swamped

How is it possible that I am working longer hours than usual when I have a break?! (how to spell break again?)

Oh right.

This "break" is meant for me to catch up with the upcoming datelines. For some reason, work kept piling up. I am pretty sure those reviews, quizzes, and take home tutorial work isn't in the outline <-- (denial). I've probably mentioned this before but I am gonna mention it again, I am so swamped with work and the work seem to not come to an end=_____________________________=

It's 2.25am now and I think I've at least sat in front of the laptop researching and typing for at least 12 hours. My grasp of reality = living on dateline schedules. I am not complaining, at least I am trying not to. LOL! I am just a tiny bit exhausted.

Just a tiny bit=)

Hey I am just being human alright?

Thank goodness for the "double date" on Friday with the bestie and her beloved *grins*.

I dissected cow brain the other day. Will update you guys with pictures of our lab work later. For now. I need to sleep. Yawnnnn.......

I am back!

Hola!!!

I am back!

I've been super busy lately. Caught up with uni work. I hardly can find time to update my blog. Yes I am that swamped with work. So much so whenever I sat down and try to type a post for my site all I can think of is my work. And I know I wouldn't be able to come out with something interesting if I keep going on and on about my research.

For the past few weeks, I've handed in 2 assignments (or was it 3?). Conducted an experiment to test on brain hemisphere. Got home from campus at around 11.30pm just because my group mates and I havta work on our assignment since it's due the next day. Went for dinner with some of the bird gang. Got caught up in some group conflict, solved it, and moved on. Knew that I can't really rely on some people although they are meant to be treated like an adult. Skip a lot of meals just to work on my tasks, lost 1kg in one week, walked a lot (like A LOT!), met an accident for the first time, got freaked out multiple of times, and knew that I am not built to do last minute work (pictures below will explain everything).

The accident:

- I met an accident when I was on my way back from campus. A taxi driver, for some reason, didn't see the signal that I flashed ages before I switched lane, speed up suddenly and kissed my car's butt. Went to the police station for the first time to lodge a report although I know there's nothing that the police can do and also realized how sucky the police here are. Not only they are rude, but they are not exactly helpful at all. God knows why my parents dragged me to the station that Monday when I already feel super exhausted after one long day at campus. Damn you taxi driver. Since that accident I am wary of all taxi drivers on the road. They don't know how to use the signal apparently. Most of them will appear from no where. But I got home safe. Phew.=)

Group conflicts:

- As usual when you work in a group, you'll have a few of them who play their part as a social loafer. Not that I can force them to do much when the stuff that they do, they don't bother checking before submitting it to you cause they usually assume that the group leader will check everything for them and pick up their shit if their work isn't good enough. I am thinking if they want to flung this semester please don't pull me with them. Hence, I'll havta polish their work for them just so my grades wouldn't be affected. At least I have Kai Li and Chee Boon. Kai Li is super efficient when comes to getting things done and it's so much better to have someone like her to brain storm with. Chee Boon on the other hand, played his part to solve all the technical problems in the group.

At least I am not a last minute person. If I didn't insist that the rest of the group members to hand in their research findings a week before the dateline, the day before the dateline I'll be bawling instead of reorganizing all the research findings.

Most of us were busy working on a particular assignment. Even on the day of the dateline, we were still working on it. Polishing and reorganizing our work.

Pictures below explains everything:

We went to get our Frappucino from Starbucks before we went for dinner. Since we all need to stay awake longer, especially me, hence I need another doze of caffeine in my system.

My Mocha Frappucino.

I've been drinking a lot of coffee lately. Within one week, I drank at least 6-7 cups of coffee. Depending on whether I took a double doze of caffeine from the one I had the first thing in the morning to keep me going.

My classes had been long. Some are pretty draggy, namely Comm Skills class. It's a class where we all don't find it a point since everything that are being taught to use had been taught to us before so it's really redundant. Then again, our attendance is really important for that class. It's like Malaysian Studies. Crappy subject and an utter waste of time. We had to stayed back for that class TWICE a week. Pfft.

I can't go on a coffee diet when I consistently need to keep myself awake with the help of it. It's like a drug. Or a placebo effect. Maybe I don't need caffeine in my system, but if I don't consume it, I can't function properly. Oh no. I sound like someone with a coffee addiction. Darn it.

I also did my experiment. Managed to complete it within 2 days*grins*

The brain pic below that are scattered on the table is our assignment.

Jyun gave me a book=) He managed to get his friend from UK to hunt for the book for it. I can't find it here and I know that the bookstore in the UK should have it. Jyun surprised me with the book by placing it on my lap yesterday *grins*. Thank you so so sooooooo much, Jyun=D

Half a year

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Sing You Home

Runa's 21st birthday party was awesomely fun!=)

We were almost the last bunch to leave her place. And Runa has such cool dad who is Indian but he can speak Hokkien better than me (actually I don't speak Hokkien, HAHA!)

I am currently working on one of my assignment which is to search for the brain model/theories. Reading the journals of Neuropsychology is dreadfully confusing. Not only I don't understand most of the stuff that is written in the journal but the models the oh-so-ever-intelligent-beings proposed there are just plain confusing instead of mind boggling. I haven't even learn most of the terms being use there. They even have those algorithm equations to explain the model and a person like me who swears off Physics after she got out from high school almost had her eye balls falling off from her eye socket going through them. Not exaggerating. So yeah, it's a rather frustrating research to work on since most of the stuff that I came across confuses me and in return it makes me feel incapable like not doing the thing get over it as soon as possible. But there are stuff that I understand since I've had lesson based on them already but there are still terms that I am not familiar with and am still getting to get myself to get use to those.

I even had Punjabi lesson with one of my Pakistani classmate. She's a Punjabi herself and one of our assignment requires us to teach one of our classmate a skill. Hence, I'll be teaching her how to speak Bahasa Melayu and she'll be teaching me how to speak Punjabi=) Pretty cool eh?

During our tutorial lesson for our Education and Learning class, we were asked to design a computer lab with the materials given by our lecturers. My group and I designed a computer lab for children and the outcome is pretty satisfying.

This week has actually been eventful in terms of the stuff that I've learnt. The upcoming week will be hectic. I can't wait for my brain dissection lesson=) Gonna make brain patty out of the brain that we dissected.

I even managed to get the book by Jodi Picoult this week, Sing You Home. If it's not because of Jyun I'll be walking out from the bookstore feeling disappointed. I even managed to finish reading the book since I stayed up on Friday night to read it. It's an incredibly good read. A must read book for Jodi Picoult's fans. I can't even bring myself to put down the book once I read it. That explains how I managed to finish reading whole book in 2 days. Ellen Degeneres interviewed Jodi Picoult about her latest novel and she said she wanted to make a movie out of it!

There's this part in the book Picoult describe how a lesbian relationship can be like a heterosexual relationship be. I don't wanna spoil it for you readers who is planning to read that book. I am still having a hangover due to that book. The Slap that I managed to finish reading somewhere this week seem to be buried way behind my head right now. But The Slap is another good read for those of you who enjoys reading book that contains a diverse social issue. Again, it's because of Jyun I get to read these books without needing to wait for a couple of months more. *grins*

A good book does make the week more interesting actually^^

Second Year

I am officially a second year Psychology student!

My new semester begins on Monday and predictably, we all got busy by the first day of the week. By the third day of my class, I have 11 assignments in line pending. I have such crazy and long week. So much so, Monday seemed to be so far away from Friday. I like Friday best so far. Not only I only have to go for tutorials, but class ends early which means I have the rest of the day to myself. Only problem is I have to drive all the way to campus for that one hour class=_______=

Thursdays are the worse. Since my tutorial begins at 11am which means I'll have to wait for approximately 5 hours before that since I havta drag myself to campus early due to the scarce space for parking. Sigh.

My longest day of the week are Tuesdays and Wednesdays since classes ends at 5.30pm on Tuesdays and 3.30pm on Wednesdays. And by the time I get myself back home, I'll havta go through the traffic. And usually I'll get back home feeling incredibly exhausted. My classes on Monday are equally long too. As much as I am trying to avoid the word exhaustion, but I can't help it since I've been rather sleep deprived for the past 3 days, or was it 4. Somehow when I sleep I tend to still think of things. And that makes me feel like I hardly slept at all.

But don't get me wrong there. I am coping fine. Only thing is I have a lot to organize and prioritize. Even my conversation with Jyun seemed to revolve a lot about work these days or we might just be sitting next to each other not talking much since we were both working on our tasks.

Hence, year two semester one begins. It's gonna be a rather long journey I reckon.

It has been a rather eventful week I think. We celebrated, Runa', Yvonne's and Clarissa's 21st birthday on Monday at TGIF and there'll be another gathering at Runa's place tomorrow. A couple of group discussion or a few of them. And we did a few assessments during our tutorial and being taught how to use some tools (yeah pretty "eventful" indeed). Yawn. I am already yawning as I typed this out despite of the 4 hours nap I had this noon (super satisfying nap).

Jyun gave me this awesome book, The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas. I've been eyeing on that book for ages already and he bought that for me recently! *grins* That dude sure know how to surprise me=) It's a good read. Although I am only half way through the book, but I am savoring every bit of the story line.

Also, Jodi Picoult has a new book. This book is her support for gay rights and it's a must read book my list.

Despite the fact that I only have the time before bedtime to do my leisure reading or sometimes in the morning before I go for my lecture classes but that will not stop me from my leisure reading moments. Right now I am craving for more leisure reading hours but sighhhh..oh well..I shall stop ranting now.

The number five!

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