IMPORTANT ANNOUCEMENT
This is important. Really. It is.Ellen was invited to speak at the commencement ceremony for Tulane University in New Orleans.
The lineup is:
FYP: A-
Survey of Modern Art: A
Bio in Pop Media: B
Japanese: B
Basic Cell Bio: S
!!!!!!
So much better than I anticipated. =)
My wGPA now stands at 5.5
Just (and just BARELY) enough to qualify me for ANU.
I really. Really. REALLY. Hope there’s some sliver of hope that let’s me chase this dream I once tossed aside.
DAMN THIS FEELS AWESOME!
I CAN GRADUATE!!!
This time, the results came with a short message below it:
Okay…. So it’s still second lower. BUT WHO CARES!!! I’VE SURVIVED! I’VE GRADUATED! THIS MIGHT BE THE END OF MY EDUCATION!!! How many years has it been since I started on this? 16 years? 17 years?
I found out the hood color for ADM is… Rusty brown edged with aquamarine. Who thought of that combi?! Looks kinda fruity in the picture…
I ran to tell my parents right after I got the results. My mom even woke up to hug me. =) I feel… Like I’ve made them proud. Made myself proud. I’m happy.
And in the silence of my bedroom, I rejoice my one step closer to med school.
Kris?
Wtf?
UPSETTING.
Unbelievably, I’m still jet-lagged.
It’s 9.45pm and I’m falling asleep on my laptop.
Today was interesting. I had lunch with my parents at Suntec where we went to get Long’s watch guarantee stamped. Lunch was an assortment of foods we carefully chose after perusing the stalls for the ones with the longest queues. But the wait was definitely worth it. The hokkien mee, the chicken rice, even the teh peng. All amazing. =D
Dear, I’m bringing you there soon. -pats head-
My week has been good and packed so far. On Monday, I met up with the animators for Kushinbo lunch and Star Trek! Animators and one film maker anyway. YY, Sara, Grace, Denise and I idled away our post-university lives at Kushinbo, sweeping away row after row of hapless sashimi, waiting to watch Star Trek.
Now, I haven’t followed Star Trek before, but the movie was AWESOME. For anyone who has done that strange star trek sign to the people who have heard the phrase “beam me up Scotty”, lovely. The guy who played Scotty was awesome! One of my favorite actors. =D
I miss hanging out with the animators…
Went out with Wendy on Tuesday! We had lunch at Ajisen Ramen at Bugis before taking a walk over to the new mall opposite Bugis – Illuma.
Managed to take this quick shot of the trippy interior before being stopped by security.
We then made a trip over to this ulu little place in Chinatown. The Casual Poet is a small cosy cafe tucked away on the 3rd floor of an old shophouse along New Bridge Road. It serves light snacks, all day breakfast, and an entire array of nice drinks. The setup itself is really nice, informal, and you actually feel at home, even if it’s your first time there.
Wendy’s latte and my AMAZING ice lemon tea. Well… I liked it anyway.
The welcome sign!
This is the entrance to the stairs leading up to the cafe. We were worried we got the wrong place, since on the second floor was some strange reflexology place or something…
Highly recommended. I love the place.
And yes dear, I’m bringing you here too. =D
Today was the start of clean skin too! I had an agonizing 2 hours of extraction, laser and chemical peel, leaving my face feel like a raw tomato. It hurt like hell too, despite the copious amounts of numbing cream lathered overly generously on my face. Still felt like fire sparklers pressed against my face. Still felt like a hundred ants chewing at my skin.
Urgh.
Well, now it’s over. I don’t think I’ll be going on roaccutane. The nurses advised me to see how the laser and chemical peel worked out before deciding again. Now I have a series of 6 bottles I have to religiously smother my face with every morning and evening.
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Hope it helps. Really.
Lady from ANU, you just made my day.
=D
I just realized no one has actually told me my score was good yet. Until now anyway. =)
Feel tons happier now.
I’ve applied for a few universities now.
Via ACER:
- Monash
- University of Sydney
Via AusEd:
- Monash
- University of Queensland
- Flinders
By myself:
- Australia National University
Judging by my current GPA, I need to get an A-, 2 B+ and a B- to still maintain a viable score for entry. Worst case scenario is one with straight Cs. That would give me a weighted GPA of 4.6 which would disqualify me from medicine altogether.
My current WGPA is 5.6. Enough to get me into ANU. But my last semester was kinda crappy. I would be lucky to get one A and no Cs.
ARGH. I want this so badly… But if there’s one thing I cannot change, it is my GPA, coming out in 2 more days. The pressure is sick inducing.
Not to mention I need to pass Cell Biology… Otherwise I can forget about graduating this year, let alone going to med school.
So.. I’m back. =D From where you say? Lots and lots of pictures. Click below to see more.
But first, some updates.
GAMSAT results were released on Friday. I got a 64/59/55 which places me at the 72 percentile, and perhaps enough to get me an interview. Last night, I applied to Monash and University of Sydney, though I think they rather automatically tossed me to U of Syd’s Dentistry and Pharmacy department. The 2010 admissions guide seems odd this year (odder than usual anywho) with the GPA requirements seemingly lower than 2009. I’m not sure if this is because of the lower number of students applying or if it’s a SIGN FROM BUDDHA!!!
My early morning nonsense aside, now I just have to wait for my results to be out next Friday. I am expecting a….
C, C, B, C, S
Gah…
With those scores, I think I can only apply to dentistry… GAH!!!
Anywho… Pictures.
So… It’s 11am now. Having eaten 3 mouthfuls of mee goreng and a cup of tea, I felt like this was the start of a lovely, albeit rather foggy, day. This feeling was further proven apposite as I discovered my computer decided to grant me access to the world wide web again today.
=D
So, anyway, MCAT scores are out. And aside from my utter lack of mental preparation, the final scores (whether I opened them on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning) wouldn’t have a hairy gumball’s chance of being any different. My final score came up to…
10/7/R/8
And I’m totally unsure if I should be celebrating or crying, so I just sit there with a strangely placid expression on my face while my facial muscles twitch in anticipation of nothing in particular. 10 for humanities was expected, 7 in physics was… Kind of expected. R for writing was very unexpected. And 8 for biochem was spot on. So, failing physics, but acing humanities… IS BUDDHA TRYING TO TELL ME SOMETHING???
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GAMSAT will be out next week. I hope. The official date isn’t out yet and “mid-May” sounds all nebulous.
Yesterday was fantastic. =) Thanks for dragging me all around the place. I know you’ve got lots to do aside from entertain me. So… =) It was really nice. Last night was fun too, covering 3 horrid horrid sins of morality, namely gambling, drinking and womanizing, and/or sloth. Oh, and greed. That’s a bit more than 3 now.
Dinner was awesome. Amazing seafood at that really amazing restaurant. Scampi was awesome, but a bit itchy in the aftermath. Gambling was pretty fun. I love the slots and their glorious randomness. Put in a dollar, punch something random and get 10 dollars. Sounds like a good deal. The game MatchMaker (not Love Match, dear) was pretty fun too… And whenever I started to lose and get depressed, flinging more than 2 chips on the table, I would start winning. I promptly took this as a sign that I should continue playing, and just as promptly lost my entire 10 dollars. I’m not too good at interpreting signs.
Dessert was a bunch of cakes we took back home. Lovely, but enormous cakes. Photos will come when the internet allows me to post photos (which will probably be next week…) but rest assured, there are plenty of photos. Cakes were accompanied by BBQ chips we had bought earlier in the day, and some lovely sprite with Lychee Soho that my talented personal bartender whipped up. It was actually really nice. We had to hunt everywhere for the Soho though, and only found it in 1 of the 5 liquor stores we popped into. But it was well worth the hunt. Lovely drink. Makes everything else taste and smell like lychee.
Booze, chips, cake and TV. Makes you want to bang the mug on the table shouting “MORE MEAD WENCH!!” though that wench would probably be referring to me as I wash the stack of dirty dishes in the sink.
Pink Dot is happening on the 16th of May. Not sure if I want to go. As much as I have these awesomely opinionated views on things, in particular those pertaining to issues that affect yours truly, I don’t see myself as anything more than an armchair activist, belting out my woes at whoever can be bothered to turn their ears in my general direction. I do, however, totally support the movement. One small step at a time, right? And if marching about Hong Lim Park with a bunch of picket signs is a small, though rather dismal, start, then so be it!
Parking there is nuts though.
I’m glad the entire AWARE saga/fiasco is over. I have plenty to say about it, accumulated in a long and very very wordy text file on my computer. But with the lack of internet over the past few days, they’re now a tad redundant. Shall keep them where they are then. On my desktop. Next to the photo of the angry cat swimming.
Today is pretty cloudy. The roads are already slick with rain from the night and a the air is thick with so much mist you feel you can take a bath just my running up and down the street. I’m going to miss these mornings. I don’t mind so much being a personal alarm clock. Feels like the kind of life I can do for the rest of my life.
Being with you feels like the kind of thing I can do for the rest of my life.
4th month anniversary was a couple of days ago, celebrated rather simply with takeaway sushi, roti prata and teh tarik. Not exactly what I had in mind, but it was strangely satisfying nevertheless. This month, I decided to do something that didn’t involve me actually making it, and something, hopefully, more tangible than a bunch of pixels on a screen. So I bought…
Chocolates.
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Cliche, I know. But yummy.
Shall blog more about everything on my mind when I get to higher ground (and better connection). I’m on the verge of jailbreaking my iPhone. But I can’t download the files required! Frustrating!!
Righto. Time to do the dishes!
No, I haven’t actually been hibernating.
I’ve just been holed up somewhere with close to no internet access. And it’s been lovely. =D
But now that my magnificent MBP decided to grace me with some glorious internet access while I was busying myself with examining the intricate workings of a vacuum cleaner, I feel obliged to give a little update.
So. It’s all over.
=)
4 years of sleepless nights, endless agony and suffering has led to this one moment of salvation and intensive, unadulterated relaxation, punctuated with bits of random activity such as shearing off the hair on my arms. =\
Well.. Admittedly, it DOES look a little better…
Life has been fantastic over the past 5 days. Simple, and fantastic. The only thing I worry about is having too much time to do nothing at all. I would post some pictures, but I dont have my card reader… And the internet doesnt seem stable enough to post the pictures I have on my iphone…
Ah well.. =)
We’re having pasta tonight!
Lol… Gawd this connection is slow…
Right then. I’m off to jailbreak my iPhone!
Finished.
31 page behemoth. UGH.
I feel thoroughly insulted today.
Not just insulted, but sinking into this feeling of being thoroughly jaded.
What, really, is with this attitude?
I ended up writing a response that, within an hour, had snaked its way to being longer than the thesis paper I’m halfway through.
Sigh…
