ISML 2010 Ruby Period - Round 3 Balloting

ARENA 01: [Shana] Minami Chiaki

ARENA 02: Haramura Nodoka [Akiyama Mio]

ARENA 03: [Nakano Azusa] Ibuki Fūko

ARENA 04: [Nagato Yuki] Ikaros

ARENA 05: [Shiina Mafuyu] Takamachi Nanoha

ARENA 06: [Saber] Fukuji Mihoko

ARENA 07: Sakurano Kurimu [Asahina Mikuru]

ARENA 08: [Fate Testarossa] Furukawa Nagisa

ARENA 09: Aisaka Taiga [Nymph]

ARENA 10: Hirasawa Yui [Saginomiya Isumi]

ARENA 11: Illyasviel von Einzbern [Sengoku Nadeko]

ARENA 12: [Kushieda Minori] Holo

ARENA 13: [Hiiragi Kagami] Ichinose Kotomi

ARENA 14: Fujibayashi Kyō [Hiiragi Tsukasa]

ARENA 15: Konjiki no Yami [Louise Vallière]

ARENA 16: Senjōgahara Hitagi [Maria]

ARENA 17: [Saten Ruiko] Okazaki Ushio

ARENA 18: [Misaka Mikoto] Hirasawa Ui

ARENA 19: [Sakagami Tomoyo] C.C.

ARENA 20: Suzumiya Haruhi [Shiina Minatsu]

ARENA 21: Fujibayashi Ryō [Katsura Hinagiku]

ARENA 22: [Tōsaka Rin] Furude Rika

ARENA 23: [Sunohara Mei] Furude Hanyū

ARENA 24: Izumi Konata [Kawashima Ami]

ARENA 25: [Akaba Chizuru] Sanzen'in Nagi

ARENA 26: [Asagami Fujino] Kamura Reiri

ISML 2010 Ruby Period - Round 2 Balloting

ARENA 01: [C.C.] Hirasawa Ui

ARENA 02: [Akiyama Mio] Louise Vallière

ARENA 03: Furude Hanyū [Saber]

ARENA 04: Ikaros [Akaba Chizuru]

ARENA 05: [Fate Testarossa] Furude Rika

ARENA 06: Nagato Yuki [Abstained] Sunohara Mei

ARENA 07: [Katsura Hinagiku] Okazaki Ushio

ARENA 08: [Izumi Konata] Holo

ARENA 09: Kushieda Minori [Shiina Mafuyu]

ARENA 10: Aisaka Taiga [Saten Ruiko]

ARENA 11: Ichinose Kotomi [Fujibayashi Ryō]

ARENA 12: [Sanzen'in Nagi] Ibuki Fūko

ARENA 13: [Tōsaka Rin] Sakurano Kurimu

ARENA 14: [Suzumiya Haruhi] Asahina Mikuru

ARENA 15: Haramura Nodoka [Maria]

ARENA 16: [Illyasviel von Einzbern] Senjōgahara Hitagi

ARENA 17: [Hiiragi Kagami] Saginomiya Isumi

ARENA 18: [Sengoku Nadeko] Fujibayashi Kyō

ARENA 19: Kawashima Ami [Abstained] Sakagami Tomoyo

ARENA 20: Minami Chiaki [Takamachi Nanoha]

ARENA 21: Nymph [Shiina Minatsu]

ARENA 22: Hirasawa Yui [Nakano Azusa]

ARENA 23: [Fukuji Mihoko] Furukawa Nagisa

ARENA 24: Hiiragi Tsukasa [Shana]

ARENA 25: [Misaka Mikoto] Konjiki no Yami

ARENA 26: Erurū [Suzumi Tamao]

06/07/2010

Practicals started on first of July as they promised. Though the first day was an assembly at the Regional Hospital. After waiting for them for about an hour or so, we got our assigned timetables and places.

My group was assigned to Hospital No. 3. Pretty ideal, considering it was just a 5 minute walk from the hostel to the hospital. The first day I went there, we picked a patient and interviewed her.

Poor lady was hospitalized for angina pectoris. She had a history of diabetes melitus, hypertension, arrythmia, and to top that off she was overweight. Though she looked really young for a 74 year old lady.

The second day, we were given permission to perform injections. Of course, it was to be kept a secret from our dean, otherwise he'd be so totally pissed. The nurses there were kind and polite and often gave us chances to do things. I thought things wouldn't be as bad as I first thought they would be.

Until yesterday. The fourth day of practicals. The nurse was a stubborn arrogant stuck-up bitch who refused to let us touch anything, who refused to let us help. I mean, she was having difficulty carrying an IV drip stand in each hand, and balancing a tray on her wrists, and she wouldn't even let us help her carry the stands?

Another infuriating thing was when I was interviewing a patient, a doctor came in, shooed me out and asked me to close the door. And when I was closing the door I heard her say, "what's with them?" in a haughty tone.

And I learned the lulzy way that not all patients are as nice as the first lady we approached. My friend Prapz was interviewing the patient who was in the next bunk beside mine.

Prapz : How's your family?
Patient : There's only one girl in your group?
Prapz : Uh yeah.
Patient : Are her parents white?
Prapz : Err... they're all Chinese *waves an arm at me* so yeah they''re all white... I guess. So, sir, do you smoke?
Patient : Why? You want to smoke now?
Prapz : .... *stands up and leaves*

Patient now turns his attention to me and my patient

Me : So... what's your name?
My Patient : Slepov Pyotr Nikolaevich.
Prapz's Patient : He's Slepov.
Me : ... What were you hospitalized for?
My Patient : I had a very high pressure.
Prapz's Patient : He's been here for a long time

goes on and on till I'm down to my final question.

Me : Well I guess that's all for today, best of luck and health to you, Mr. Slepov.
My Patient : Thanks. You should follow the path of researching, go work in labs. You'll make a good lab worker.
Prapz's Patient : You know what, you should do cut your hair. It looks horrible.
My Patient : *looks at Prapz's patient* It's OK! No one cares, as long as he's a good doctor!
Me : Thank you Mr. Slepov. *shoots Prapz's patient a dirty look and leaves*

Damn practicals.... so fun yet so boring at the same time. On a random side note, if it were not for practicals, I'd already be home for.... 3 weeks?

Graduation 2010

On a sleepy morning that I keep waking up to
I pull my necktie tight
And when I pass through my classroom door, I can start walking with my chest puffed out just a little
The wind blows through such ordinary days
I realized I heard it
I realized I felt it
Now in my chest that started to tremble
I realized it was coming already
I saw off
The millions of stars that were disappearing
I waved my hand
Saying, "Good for you"

Graduation 2010 - the second graduation ceremony I'd ever been to. It was also the second time I ever saw the university's entrance this crowded. This year's graduation was slightly different though, last year I only knew one graduate. this year, however, I knew most of the Chinese graduates, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't sad they were leaving. I mean, I've only got to know them for 2 years!

I realized I heard it
I realized I felt it
Now in my chest that started to tremble
I realized it was coming already
A new sun overcame thousands of mornings
I realized you're waiting
I realized you're calling
My soul is trembling
I realized I found it
I saw off
The day that's able to disappear like millions of dreams
I waved my hand
Saying, "Thank you"

My Saimoe 2010 Voting

ARENA 01: [Tōsaka Rin] Hirasawa Ui

ARENA 02: [Sakurano Kurimu] Minami Chiaki

ARENA 03: Sanzen'in Nagi [Louise Vallière]

ARENA 04: [Fujibayashi Kyō] Ichinose Kotomi

ARENA 05: Asahina Mikuru [Shana]

ARENA 06: Hirasawa Yui [Haramura Nodoka]

ARENA 07: [Senjōgahara Hitagi] Okazaki Ushio

ARENA 08: Nymph [Sengoku Nadeko]

ARENA 09: Suzumiya Haruhi [Saten Ruiko]

ARENA 10: Furude Hanyū [Shiina Mafuyu]

ARENA 11: Kawashima Ami [Katsura Hinagiku]

ARENA 12: Saginomiya Isumi [Akiyama Mio]

ARENA 13: [Misaka Mikoto] Ibuki Fūko

ARENA 14: [Fate Testarossa] Konjiki no Yami

ARENA 15: [Furukawa Nagisa] Takamachi Nanoha

ARENA 16: Izumi Konata [Fujibayashi Ryō]

ARENA 17: Maria [Abstained] Shiina Minatsu

ARENA 18: [Illyasviel von Einzbern] Aisaka Taiga

ARENA 19: Sakagami Tomoyo [Abstained] Sunohara Mei

ARENA 20: Fukuji Mihoko [Abstained] Holo

ARENA 21: Kushieda Minori [Abstained] Nagato Yuki

ARENA 22: C.C. [Abstained] Akaba Chizuru

ARENA 23: [Hiiragi Kagami] Hiiragi Tsukasa

ARENA 24: [Nakano Azusa] Ikaros

ARENA 25: Furude Rika [Saber]

ARENA 26: Lynn Minmay [Abstained] Tokimatsuri Eve

Goddamn see what biochem did to me.

Increased Random-ness

Can't get myself to calm down and study biochemistry properly. It's Sunday today, and exam's on Friday. Great. Just great. I have absolutely no idea what I'm studying, nothing is going in, and whatever I'm reading, it's definitely not English, because if it was in English I'd have understood it better than I'm understanding it now.

Today was quite a Sunday, woke up to find the Internet server in the hostel down (why Sunday morning of all mornings I'll never know). Which meant my MW and CoB levelling were going to be set back. By a lot. Well as if that wasn't bad enough, the subsequent rage and frustration at the slow speed after recovery made me mis-click the MW energy pack. AT FULL ENERGY.

What a great way to kick off the day. Went to a senior's apartment to take some stuff she was giving and selling away, has a pretty lulzy chat with her over a certain someone LOL.

And it's 9pm and I'm sitting here, typing another post on my blog, and I'm in no condition to study biochemistry. Worse part is Friday's my exam, and Friday's graduation day. Which means Thursday is consultation day, and the only day I get to go make arrangements for the flowers and shit. It also means, not much studying is going to be done.

Looking good, another day of getting nothing done, of getting nothing into my brain. Though a consolation is that my pre-ordered Ryougi figurine arrived on Saturday, and now I have a 1/7 figure of Ryougi with Kuji Kanesada standing beside my laptop.

Love Ryougi, love the one who brought it to me even more. <3

14/06/2010

Been almost three weeks since I left this place abandoned. Or has it been more than three weeks? Well it matters not. I've been... busy, or at least I think.
But that's not the point today

Physiology exam is on 17th this month, which is 3 days from now, and I'm still struggling to remember all that crap about the way the body functions and whatnot, the mechanisms behind digestion... like when unit A uses a Tango of Essifation, 0 damage is dealt to the unit before the regen, which can be proven using Lord of Avernus... wait that's DotA mechanics, not digestive mechanisms.

I mean, much has been going on lately, with my clan in total disorder, my thoughts in pieces and my ankle sprained... well a sprained ankle is the least of my worries when I think about the upcoming exams and my ascending to the post of godfather of the clan.

At times I do wish I had certain someone by my side, someone capable enough to help me out with all these stuff, though I highly doubt the possibility of said person appearing any time soon.

Yesterday has by far been the worst, with me:
1) Burning my dinner.
2) Breaking my glasses which have been with me since I was 16.
3) Forgetting about my sprained ankle and going for basketball, only to be reminded of it later.
4) Having no dinner as a result of burning said dinner.

And worst part is I can't study. Not with the cicadas chirping outside my window (a call for me to go on a rampage in the hostel Rena-style). Not with the heat either. The underpowered fan isn't helping too. The study room downstairs is even worse, with the lack of mosquito netting, and lack of ventilation.

Even worse, my mind keeps drifting away, from Tachibana Kanade to the C200 back home to the roads and slopes of Japanese mountain passes.

Speaking of Tachibana Kanade, I really really do recommend watching Angel Beats, a show airing this season. 13 episodes, with a bloody awesome OP by Lia, and with good insert songs to match. The story is good too, somewhat inspiring, yet being able to touch one's heart.

Well I might've had too much of that, I mean, last night I had a dream, which fitted perfectly. In that world, I was dead, and I was at a school, a school for the afterlife. It was so real, I mean, I saw a couple of my Volgograd mates there too, and my death was so bizarre. I was in my C200 back home, driving my parents and a girl whose face I don't really remember. I can even remember I was turning out from the junction in front of my old house in BM when the engine failed (exact same problem I had last summer, where a component in the engine controlling the petrol/air mixture flow into the pistons spoiled, thus causing a severe lag, and a sudden stop) and a lorry came slamming into us. I blacked out, and the next moment I opened my eyes, I was there again. For the first time in my life, I actually experienced the fear of not being able to see my parents again, of not being able to see my friends, and not being able to see her again.

Damn when I jerked up, I was shivering from the fear of it. My heart was beating like a drummer on steroids and I was panting. No I don't want to have such a nightmare again.

On a side note though, I gotta call home and ask my mum if she's already fixed that C200, otherwise I'm not driving that car this summer.