So tired... I have discovered that i like to use the three full stops an awful lot. so for the sake of convenience and saving on memory i'll shorten it to one. every time anyone ever sees me use one full stop ever again, it means three ok? hehe :P

Survived my first 8am - 6pm day! :D Though it wasn't a proper 10 hour day - the 2 hour anatomy lecture ended an hour early at 11am and the lecturer didn't turn up for the 5pm anatomy lecture so we sat there for a bit and hibernated then decided to walk out ;)

The challenge now is to survive a 8:30am - 7pm day tomorrow! with bible study at 7:45 too! it's not nearly as bad as today though, there's huge breaks in between each lecture/tute/whatever so i can finish researching before wednesday (yay!) - been spending all night on the computer on MSN or skype or even doing some work. i can tell that i'm going to be very sick of embryology by the time i've finished these couple of weeks ;) medical ethics in professionalism is a bit of joke and epidemiology is like statistics only more confusing. fun! i'm still really enthusiatic and getting into the entire med student thing so it's all good so far! (watch this space - in a few days i'm going to be whinging again ;p)

Now playing -- Clannad - Closer to your Heart

It's the same old story when someone astounds you
The harder they come is the harder they fall
Taking it easy no matter what people say
And time will heal all your troubles away

Crazy day...

I woke up at 8am today... i thought 'my lift for church is coming at 9:40 i can sleep for another half hour' and set my alarm on the phone to what i thought was 8:30... little did i anticipate that i would hit 9 instead of 8, wake up properly at 9:40, chuck on some random clothes grab bag keys mobile bible and head out the door. fortunately my lift was late so i got some oj from the kitchen to kill the morning breath a bit... then after church i went out for lunch and stayed there for the afternoon, went back to sunday@six (not an email address silly blogger!) and got back here at about 9ish.... so naturally i am stuffed and looking forward to an 8am - 6pm day tomorrow (yay i'm a med student!! waaaaah)

Sorry to unichurch.. but i think i'll be committing to elermore vale for now :) i can anticipate problems with trying to sustain 2 churches (and college bible study and med bible study) at all, let alone when uni gets crazy so i'm going to sort myself out before the crazy uni thing starts ;) i figure the people that i'd really miss from unichurch i'd see at the college or med bible studies... but it's a bit of a wrench to have to pick :\

I got the google desktop program and it's actually really really cool - if you have lots of bandwidth to burn ;) the photo slideshow is running at the moment and reminding me of all the silly photos that i have on the computer ;)

anyway going to get back to work and stop procrastinating... i'd never procrastinate, would i?

Now playing -- Diana Krall - Abandoned Masquerade

You can cry a pool of tears and sit beside it...
Then perhaps you'll know what you want...

Well, I'm back... again...

let's see what's been happening in the last 2 weeks since i have had no internet at college and everything... (thanks to the little mr network admin at home - it took me a week and a half to figure that the 'manually configured' IP address was not a good thing and that i should change it ;) )

in summare:

- moved to newcastle (if anyone wants to send me anything, my address is:

Joyce Wong
Edwards Hall
University of Newcastle
Callaghan NSW 2308

- easy!)

- survived oweek in the 'drinking college' of newcastle uni (usually by disappearing somewhere else e.g. friends in other colleges, going back to tamworth, skipping all parties)
- survived going back home and getting my citizenship and coming back (5 minute ceremonies rock! 4 hour train trips both ways don't rock!)
- survived starting med (and actually enjoyed it! the problem based learning thing sounds dumb but it's fun and it might work... we shall see...)
- survived a trip down to sydney and even survived the trip back

the trip back from sydney was convoluted, to say the least - everything was fine until i realised that i'd read the timetable for weekdays, which was all right but meant i caught the 4:15pm train instead of the 3:45 or 4 that i'd intended to... then i waited half an hour for the bus which was fine... then i missed the stop at the uni which was not fine!!!!! so i got off the bus and started heading back to the colleges which was a pretty short walk... but it was dark and scary and i was by myself so fortunately a kind old lady gave me a lift back :) - the morale of the story is to work out which side of the road the bus travels on and which way the stops work. and never to start running out of credit when alone on a roadside trying frantically to contact friends with cars that lived at the uni to find that they were all in sydney, at a party or couldn't drive because they'd had wine with their dinner (*doh!!!). second morale of the story is that God definitely answers prayer, strangely enough he often uses little old ladies. (hehe)

so i'm into the books and finding myself some instant noodles for dinner... and cleaning up the mess in my bags... and thinking how good it is that today is SATURDAY not sunday... and feeling very tired.

-- Now playing: Ivory Sessions - Abraham's theme

(The first track in a completely instrumental and mostly piano/electronic CD which is the most relaxing tape that i have ever listened to so i turned the tape into a CD!)

Well.. I'm back..

We got back on Thursday after travelling for ages and it's been a bit surreal since then... less than 3 days ago I was in malaysia... weird... after adjusting back to english as national language, and being chucked headfirst in all the stuff that i needed to sort out after getting back, it's not that bad, actually!

Malaysia was hot. Hong Kong was busy and scary. went shopping lots. not quite sure what else to write about holiday because i could end up typing forever ;)

Going to uni next week will post more later

Still jetlagged and tired. Past midnight. Church tomorrow. Should probably sleep...

-- Now playing: David Gray - Sail Away

Sail away with me, and what will be will be...