Who says we are all nerds?

I'm in the library right now killing time but when I read this, I can't help but log on just to blog about this!

From: Multiple Choice Questions in Clincal Examination (Talley & O'Connor 1996)
Question 2-10:

The clinical term 'shock' has a rather different meaning from that in common use. Causes of medically defined shock include:
a) coming across a completely unexpected question in the final examination
b) myocardial infarction
c) anaphylaxis
d) angina
e) Gram-negative sepsis

I hope you get the touch of irony in the question!
Haha.

Reminds me of the story Prof Allistair Randwick told us to an answer a student wrote in an exam paper:

Give the defination of shock.
Ans: Unexpected surprise.

Feels a bit more like home

DUMC Cg in Vista used to be really fun sometimes, where I'd laugh too much or drink caffeine in mamaks & become too alert to fall sleep...(yea guys I really do miss you all!)

But thankfully bible study group is becoming more familiar and comfortable now.
It's still different; we don't sing songs in bible study and it's not a topical bible study, don't have all the testimony/sharing slot too..and although most of my bible study is Asian (which is the exception in Unichurch), they are all ABCs...

....it's actually a good sign that I can't sleep at 1.11 am now even though I have to wake up at 6+ plus tomorrow cuz I had so much fun screaming & laughing while playing monopoly.

Red Pizza night: where every1 brings random toppings



Monopoly at my place

Choice

After nearly 2 months of visiting around and sometimes attending church in the morning at somewhere else, at night at another.....I've finally made the choice to be at Unichurch.

It was really hard to make this decision. The "style" of churches here are very denominational based; it's either all....
I do miss DUMC, where there's a good balance of being charismatic yet bible based with good sermons.

Church A is very worship based; famous, great music, big.
Unichurch is the complete opposite; where people rarely clap hands but with solid sermons; almost like bible college!

It's not easy to decide which because both had their advantages. I didn't want to miss out on the freedom to express & my charismatic roots but at the same time I wanted good word. For a few weeks I was running around confused! Some Sundays I'd say I want to be here, yet at other times I wanted to be at the other.

But that's what choices are all about. It finally dawned upon me that sometimes I can't have everything. At least not in this world; where human systems and even church systems are not fully perfect. Not in Australia, not in Malaysia even.

And the importance of focus & season.
I realize that this is the only few years I can actually join Unichurch because I won't be at uni after that. And this is also the time to dig deep into the word; especially for a noob like me...
To join a "mixed" church as well, to be humble enough to learn to adapt to different cultures.

It doesn't make the decision any easier because it's quite different (not necessarily in a bad way, but simply because it's different from what I'm used to) where there's no lifting of hands; let alone the other more "charismatic" beliefs. I don't even know most of the songs they sing here...a bit of hymns, their own EMU music (I've never sung much hymns in church before)
And it's 80% white and the rest of the Asians are ABCs. I'm still tongue-tied at times because the topics of conversation are so different!
No more laughing at lame jokes; bye to the lahs...

But I guess that what choices are all about.
To be decisive & to be brave enough to accept that for this season, there are certain things I'll miss because I'm making this choice. Yet to trust God that He will grow & bless other areas as a result of this decision.




*this is a personal observation on churches, and is not a comparison on which church is better than the other or which style is better/should be adopted. Both churches are good. Neither a Australia or M'sia church comparison as different places have different cultures & cater accordingly to the needs of its people. *

Food craze

(smoked salmon with cheese, mushrooms, greens and olive oil.......all for less than Aud 2)

I'm becoming a domesticated old lady: I love to go grocery shopping, love to *cough* cook.....and have started to arrange my clothes by their colour when I hang them! (ugh..)

Comfort food

Hot soup full of healthy vegetables, fish & mussels.........

It's a beautiful day

Red

It''s turned red! and my flowers have not died too..... :)



Palliative care has a way of invoking the most hidden feelings. Even had a tutorial where they brought in a woman who loss her husband to colorectal cancer to talk about their journey. And she sobbed and sobbed.

To always be heard
To not be abandoned.

To always be heard
To not be abandoned.


but anyway.

if u r wondering, that's the balcony from my room. Yea, my place rocks..haha..pics of the place sometime later

It's Good!

"Do you realize you are in a profession paid to love people, paid to serve people?"

"50% of med students drift away from church in med school, and another 5o-70% from the remainder drop away during internship years....are you going to be part of that statistic?"

"Our calling is just not to be a convert, but a follower"

"I am thinking of being a GP because I can have more time for my patients and even work 4 day weeks so that I can minister in church." from one of my friends.... & I am so blown away because in the Malaysian culture, being a GP is the leftover option we take if we can't get speciality training

"To have compassion for your patients, you must first have passion for God."


I've just got back from a camp specially for med & dental students in NSW & ACT and
-To have doctors and doctor-missionaries share their lives; specially voluntering to come to speak
-Doctors who really love their work, the people we normally read about in books speaking in person & who are so eager to help us blur students
-To have & be under an organization (CMDFA/Transfusion) that has a mentor-doctor list & lots of contacts so that students can go to Africa/Asia
-Students who are really eager to go the extra mile; my 6th year seniors went to Africa and Papua New Guenia last year!



......it's all really good

For a "i'm so new i don't know any1" noob like me it was also good to get to know the UNSW ppl a lot better as well...we the 4th year girls are thinking of going to either China or Africa for electives together! (if we can get the same elective block though..)

And now the dilema is not "how to arrange elective/trips overseas" but rather "every place sounds really challenging and exciting..how do I make up my mind?!"






(the towel represents servanthood)

PS: Do continue to pray for my family though...while I'm having things good here, it's still a struggle at home......