20!

Hooray! My 20th blog post!

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Obviously I"m dead bored and needed an excuse to post something.

I just had a vaguely interesting lecture on diarrhoea which would have been much more interesting had it been a week or so ago, when we actually started to learn about it...

Unfortunately, these lecture theatres seem to have their thermostats tuned for penguins or people with slightly more blubber than I"ve built up for myself.
I need to bring a jumper next time, despite the fact that it is 35 degrees outside...

Currently in a lecture about colorectal cancer screening. Its actually quite interesting and the lecturer is doing a pretty good job keeping my mind from wandering... Too much... Of course, here I am typing a blog post...

A shout out to my fellow classmate who decided he needed to make a dramatic entrance but perhaps thought otherwise when entering through the door behind the lecturer and proceeding to walk across the stage with a slightly embarrassed smile on his face. Go PTR! See? I am paying attention to this lecture...

I do believe it is time to continue listening to this lecture...

Deja vu!

So its the New Year.

Again.

Except this time we have the moon to blame.

Silly Lunar New Year... (or Chinese New Year)

Its the year of the Ox (thus, or a nice pun, Happy "Niu" Year) and this happens to be my year... Which is kind of sad because it makes me old. But also the 3rd multiple of 8, three eights, 888, somehow rhyming with "rich" in mandarin/cantonese and thus lucky and good.

Riiiight.

Done.

So I think I"m done.

Finally.

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

A Whole New... Year.

So 2009 is upon us.

Hooray.

I"m not sure what the excitement about a "New Year" is, considering its exactly the same as the last few. The only way you even notice is when people start correcting your correspondence by crossing out the 2008 and writing 2009, or saying "Hey, I noticed you wrote 2008! Hahaha I do that all the time too!"

Though I do hope everyone had fun on New Years Eve. I certainly did! In bed and asleep by 10pm, it was a brilliant night :)

As of current, I am lazing about doing not much.

One thing I have started doing though is a new exercise regime.
Did I mention I was a Fatty McFatcakes? I forget.
Anyway, I"m massive, but the jogging I"ve been doing (I believe it was 5.3637km, twice a day) has had a negative effect on my knees, so I"ve decided to switch it up a bit.

Monday: Bike riding (Twice a day)
Tuesday: Interval workout - 2 minutes fast, 5 minutes jog/walk to recover. Rinse and repeat. Alternatively, if there was an oval, I"d do 1 lap fast, 1 lap slow. (Twice a day)
Wednesday: Normal jog (5.3637km, twice a day!)
Thursday: Tempo run - 10 minutes at a light pace, followed by 15 minutes at a heavy pace, followed by 10 minutes at a light pace. (Twice a day!)
Friday: Rest/walk - Sleep in the morning, walk in the evening
Saturday: My normal distance except at a faster pace (Twice a day)
Sunday: Walking in the morning for 5.3637km, Jog in the evening for 5.3637km

So yeah. We"ll see how that goes :)

Oh, also I got diagnosed with sleep apnoea and will have to use a CPAP machine. Hooray for me.

Oh my is that the time...

Right, so I guess I"ve been slack again. No surprise there...

It has been a over a month since my last post, close to two in fact. Are you honestly surprised though? I mean really, how many of these posts have I started by stating how long its been since my last post...

Anyway.

So in the time we"ve skipped over, I"ve managed to get through the final exams for the year in one piece (more or less), went and saw Wicked, underwent a sleep study, and been diagnosed as fat by my mother.

How nice.

Well the exams were... Well, they were.

Wicked was incredibly awesome. I know that word gets thrown around a lot, but it is.

The sleep study was... I dunno, I slept! I"m still waiting for results though, so we"ll see what happens...

Me being fat is quite true. It seems that I"ve managed to surpass a BMI of 25, thus making me overweight. Quite sad really :(
The result of which, I have eaten the least I have ever had this holiday season. I"ve also been jogging 5.3637km (according to the Google Maps Distance Measurement Tool) twice a day (6am, 6pm).
Hopefully I can lose 15 kilograms in the next 3 months, though that might be extreme. I"m aiming for at least 5 kilograms before I return to Adelaide though, after that, we"ll see how things go...

I"m also back on the Gold Coast, which is nice I guess...
I"ve continued my research into mangos and my conclusion remains the same.
I"ve gotten so used to living on my own that I don"t know if I can deal with my parents anymore. So far I"ve been surviving, though who knows how long I can keep it up. There haven"t been too many arguments...

Christmas was fun, had something in the range of 20 relatives come from Melbourne and Brisbane to have lunch near the beach, or more specifically, Point Danger.
It was very relaxing though not many of us kids wanted to be there, considering how hot and crowded it was... But we dealt with it. I spent time with my pride and joy, my second cousin. She"s 13 years old and the greatest person in the world :)

Aaaaanyway, thats me covered.

I"ll try update when something else happens...

Embryology is tasty

So we had an embryology prac today.

Summary:
1. Oooh primitive streak
2. Oooh primitive streak, primitive node and somites!
3. Oooh more somites! Neural plate!
4. Wow! Heaps of somites! Neural folds!
etc.

Overall, it was quite exciting, despite what I"ve said above.
We saw a super chicken (it had two sets of organs! Imagine the possibilities with two hearts, livers etc.), a not so super chicken (it had half a head...), a mirror image chicken (two chicks attached at the head), and a split chicken (2-3 bodies to the one head).
Not to mention the guinea pig embryo and the bearded lizard embryo.

Then the finale!

Smoked trout!

It was oh so tasty after it was dissected and we learnt about the nerves and muscles that came from each somite.

Mmmm... Embryology...