| Tis the season to be shopping. | Monday, December 26, 2011 |
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Upon my quest of sniffing through various scents to find the perfect ones for the perfect people, I chanced upon Gucci Guilty for Women. With it's top notes of mandarin and pink pepper, middle notes of lilac, geranium and peach, and base notes of patchouli and amber, it definitely stood out.
Of course, there were other scents which stood out as well. Amongst them were, Chloe Perfume, Hugo Boss Femme,Versace Vanitas and the classic Chanel No. 5.
(And since this isn't exactly a blog about scents, I shan't explain further about each one, go sniff them yourself hehe. After all, to each her own. )
I probably have missed out many great scents out there in the market, but please, my nose cells can only take that much of sniffing in a day, and most of them cells are already dead from some of the overbearing strong scents. Though the entire day was spent mainly shopping for gifts that were not mine, I did enjoy myself tremendously, albeit an ache to the pockets and feet.
Tralalala ~Mel
| A movie worth my time. | Sunday, December 25, 2011 |
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Well finally there comes a movie worthy enough to blog about.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows was in my opinion, an even better movie than the first. Filled with awesome cinematography - you have to give credit for the brilliant slow motion scenes (in just the right amount) and the carefully thought-out moves that the director foreshadows. And a brilliant storyline - another one of those plots filled with twists, quick wit and brilliant calculated moves. And brilliant acting - come on, Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams and well basically the entire cast did a very good job in their portrayals of the characters.
Not often is the sequel better than the first. Not often doesn't mean it's impossible. Ah, good movies, something that definitely makes my day.
Merry Christmas world :) ~Mel
| It's the simpler things. | Friday, December 09, 2011 |
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There are many things in life that makes me happy - ice cream, chocolates, chilling at the beach, laughing with friends, nice weather...well, the list goes on.
Sometimes, it's the simpler things that make you happy.
A hug from someone. A smile from someone. The laughter from someone. The mere company of someone. The mere presence of someone. Things that are often overlooked and yet can just turn that frown upside down.
Like this bolster I have that can provide me the most comfortable rest I've ever had. So comfy that I could just hug it and never let it go.
Comfy! :D
Whee ~Mel
| Advice of the Day | Monday, November 21, 2011 |
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When you've reached tertiary education, make sure you stay a walkable distance from your university with either a car or adequate transportation system nearby.
~It saves you time, trouble and the feeling of guilt.~
| Skip this if you don't wanna read about me whining. | Wednesday, November 16, 2011 |
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You know how when you were in high school and you had to study for an exam, you grumble, you procrastinate and eventually you still just do mug away? (well for me anyway, maybe for the rest of you out there it's different)
Well, it's completely different for me now. I'm not sure, maybe it's because I studied too much in my younger days that I'm so totally reluctant to work hard now, maybe, or maybe it's just plain laziness? Because..I've reached to the point that I grumble, I procrastinate, and then I really don't want to study. To the point where it's a hatred to study. Like a little kid being forced to eat vegetables.
Yet I know I have no choice but to study. Because among all courses, I picked one that requires constant brain hammering, I picked something that is definitely out of my even-if-I-didn't-study-for-it-I-would-pass reach. Something which I actually have to work for.
Sigh, I sound so incredibly lazy lol. Maybe it's just laziness. Maybe the panic bug just hasn't bit me yet. Maybe I'm just PMS-ing. Whatever. Meh.
~Mel
| Word of the Day | Thursday, November 10, 2011 |
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exhaustion |igˈzôs ch ən|noun1 a state of extreme physical or mental fatigue : Melissa is on the brink of exhaustion from everything, from university workload to event managing. She is very much mentally drained.
| Thou shall not burst my happy bubble. | Monday, October 24, 2011 |
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Lion King in 3D, ah it brings back childhood memories :) No doubt, Lion King is one of the classic movies that all little kids should watch. At least once. The 3D effects were not too bad, I've seen worse 3D movies that aren't worth your money at all.
Whee! Happy happy happy :D
After a morning/early afternoon of pissiness. Yay to the irresponsible and to the blur and to the mishaps of everyday life. Such joy to deal with you.
But for now, this happy bubble is totally impenetrable :D
~ Mel :)
| Random thought that flash through my cluttered most-of-the-time empty mind. | Saturday, October 01, 2011 |
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I was out grocery shopping today and I remembered being paranoid about people stealing stuff from my trolley cart when I was a kid. It's the whole idea about always minding your stuff and being aware you're not getting robbed. When in actual fact, it doesn't really matter if someone does take stuff from your shopping cart, none of the things in there has been paid for yet anyway. So yea, noone would really bother.
But another thought occurred to me today, despite the fact that none of the items have been paid for, taking stuff from other people's carts actually do have it's benefits. For one thing, we shop for ourselves, meaning we pick the best produce, we check the expiry date, we make sure the cans of food aren't dented, we make sure what we've picked and about to purchase is worth the amount we're about to pay.
So let's say I am THAT lazy to go about picking my own stuff, going around picking bits of items off others' carts seem like a pretty good idea and a pretty good way to get good hand-picked produce.
But yea, sounds like a good idea but really, who would actually bother doing that kind of thing. I think it doesn't mean I'll actually do it. I blog about it because I have absolutely nothing else to blog about (believe me, my life is pretty much monotonously routine) and I think I really should be updating considering my co-blogger has kinda given up on blogging I think..haha.
Life in uni? Whee, we've entered reproduction week, cue testicular lesions and menstrual cycles. Music club welcoming party, acoustic night, HIV week concert, Pianotech concert, AGM meeting...the list might go on but it looks pretty bad as it is already. And I need to get that grand piano of the club's tuned, just remembered darn it.
*shrug :) * ~Mel
| Whee. | Saturday, September 10, 2011 |
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Whee..to update, I'm still on my way to becoming a doctor :D
Orientation has begun yet again, NOISE is coming up, recruitment drive for Music & Performance Club is coming up, Acoustic Night should be somewhere along the way as well, some concert is going to be held at the end of the year, summatives should be somewhere along the way as well (hah, woe is me, I'm still procrastinating. So much for learning from past mistakes.), yeap, that pretty much seems like it so far.
Doesn't sound too bad, just a whole lot to do with my M&P club. What's depressing about sem 4 is that classes can end up till 7.30 pm. By then, stomachs would be growling, attention spans would be waning and I will most definitely be sleepy. Whee, so much for paying absolute full attention in class.
Oh wells. I'll deal with it :)
Big smile at the world :D ~Mel
| Blablabla | Sunday, August 14, 2011 |
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So yes, I am finally on holidays now. And as usual I do what I do best and basically try to turn my brains into mush by watching excessive amounts of shows and movies.
And shows really do have an effect on you, no, I'm not referring to the loss of knowledge. I've been on a Masterchef marathon lately. So when my plate of lamb shoulder was served, I cut a piece of meat and whilst cutting, I couldn't help thinking, this meat is kinda tough. Okay nevermind, so once the piece was cut, it was...not as pink as it was suppose to be. In other words, it turned out medium well instead of the medium I ordered. And the vegetables were boiled for too long, lost all taste, its like little pieces of pure fiber. Meh.
Watched The Notebook. And that is one sad sad movie. Good but sad.
:) ~Mel
| Survival. | Friday, July 08, 2011 |
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Breathing. The first key step to surviving. Anything.
Then comes thinking. But from here, it can go two ways - to the bright side or the dark side. So cross your fingers and hope that you stay away from the dark side. Regardless of the fact that it may seem more inviting and tempt you with cookies.
And then it's just plain surviving.
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But if you're one of those lucky people in the world, you'll have people alongside you helping you survive.
Even the smallest of smallest gestures matter.
*smile* ~Mel
| So I Blabber. | Friday, July 01, 2011 |
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I'm back. To the world of pure laziness and procrastination, oh wait, it doesn't have to be procrastination anymore because it doesn't count as procrastination if you don't actually have something to procrastinate from. Hehe..its a long sentence but hey, for someone like me, i now have the time to type that. And if you don't have time to read it..lol, its okay :)
Exams ended today. That was just four days of pure mental exhaustion. Studying all that about anatomy and physiology and pathology and microbiology and..whatever..is one thing but having to sit through exams, feel the panic of exams, go through exam stress, go through the omg-I-screwed-up-my-exam phase, its all just so incredibly tiring.
But yeay, its over now :) It's like now I realised, woah, I feel soo tired. I think its probably because I really am mentally exhausted and there's probably some sleep deprivation thrown into the equation of preparation for the exam. Though I did actually get enough sleep yesterday..hmm..
EXAMS OVER! :D
A big cheesy smile at the world ~Mel
| To Expect The Unexpected. | Tuesday, May 31, 2011 |
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I am home! What better way to celebrate than to just submerge myself in the wonderful world of technology, and the comforts of my home?
So momentary indulgence aside, I actually really enjoyed the KKB trip. True enough, we were all pretty negative and being constant whiners on the first night there..but hey, it turned out pretty good anyway. Of course the actual hospital rotation work actually kinda bored me after the first two days, but the non-medical parts of the trip were the best part of it.
There was the company. I think I spent more than half of my time in KKB laughing like a hyena and going equally as insane as the crazy company I had. Seriously, the nonsense and crap that we did and crapped about. It's all just one big LOL.
Due to the unfortunate timing of my trip, I had to spend my birthday there. And that turned out to be the best part of the trip. For me anyway, haha, what do you expect, you're asking the birthday girl, I'm being biased. But I do think it really was the best birthday celebration I've gotten so far. *cue big cheesy smile*
Yippee, back to mugging for now then. The joy.
Big cheesy smile at the world ~Mel
| An Ingrained Procrastination Instinct. | Wednesday, May 25, 2011 |
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Rotations! Yeap, part and parcel of a medical student's life. I'll be leaving for Kuala Kubu Bharu in approximately 4 and 1/2 hours. Well..all I can prolly expect is..it's going to be one new experience for me.
Onto past matters, Acoustic Night is over thank goodness, now I can really start studying for my EOS and make sure I make it through without having to repeat. Actually I don't know if it should be thank goodness..the idea of mugging consecutively for 5 weeks..err, not too inviting.
Had my interview with a difficult patient, I got a long-winded patient. Honestly, it was quite fun. For me anyway, but that was probably because the patient I got was so nice as compared to the other patients the rest got which were, to be honest, quite frustrating. And apparently, I'm too nice..which makes me a dangerous doctor. Haha, well that's a first. First I was a heartless doctor who showed no empathy and now I'm too nice. Haha!
Actually..yea okay, I have no idea why I'm even blogging. Sometimes I do the randomest things. Like just now, I picked up "Dear John" and decided to just start reading it. Yea now. When the only things I should be reading is like..mama patho and lecture notes. I think it's some ingrained procrastination instinct I have, it just comes naturally. Haha, not exactly a good thing. Oh wells.
Goodbye to technology for 6 days & 5 nights, haha ~Mel
| An Ineffective Holiday | Monday, May 02, 2011 |
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So the first thing I do when I got wifi when I got back home was open Facebook. And the first few things to welcome me home was a nice little squabble on my committee's page about an upcoming event. Brilliant.
I really don't get the point of going for a holiday when the moment you go for a holiday, you forget everything, or at least you try to forget and shut down your guilty conscience, and when you come back home and back to the sad sad reality of ordinary life, you get smacked in the face with a whole load of unresolved matters and a heck load of guilty conscience. Boom, there goes all that rest and relaxation.
These are the times when I just want to smack myself in the head and ask why on earth did I agree to being president. Not only do you have to ensure that everything runs smoothly, you have to make sure that the decisions that you make are the right ones. Which brings me to question my own decision as to if that's the right one. Which brings me to doubt myself and question my capabilities. Which brings me to the brink of wanting to resign from this damned post so that I can live slightly less stress-free.
Because really, it's not as if I already don't have enough to do. Already I'm behind on my studies, really really behind, which brings me to question again what was the point of that holiday. I'm behind in so many aspects of my life that I just want everything to just..STOP.
I think I've fallen into a deep pitch-black chasm of negativity.
~Mel
| Let me check my schedule. | Friday, March 25, 2011 |
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Just finished my AIR topic, which is one of the very few assignments we have in IMU..haha. And I'm here for the sake of updating this blog. Well, that and I do miss writing. But not as if I have stuff to blog about. Well, I do, or more specifically, I had, but it's kinda like once you miss that ohmph to write then that's it?
Summary: Orientation is over, yes finally, sad but at least that load is off. And just when I think "it's time to focus on making it past sem 3" *BAM* I suddenly have a whole lot of things to do. I must have been slightly delusional at that point to think that I'll ever be "free" to focus on studies. It's always the same old pattern, one event after another, since...primary school? Haha. Fun no doubt but with consequences.
So what do I have in store for me?
My band's joining the english singing competition in uni, I got involved in the dance for Easter which means constant practices till 15th April (which is the day of the event), I got being in charge for an Inter-varsity Scrabble Competition which I have to organise and stress over till 16th April (day of event), and I have to make sure I don't flunk out of med school, which means me actually not drifting off into who-knows-where with me looking totally focused on what the lecturer is saying, which means me not doing stuff like...read storybooks, stare into utter blank space, BLOG when I'm supposed to be studying, I emphasize on the supposed.
My sis is coming back on the 19th April, which basically means all weekends are booked for eating and shopping, which is an awesome thing but not so awesome at the end of it when I realise that I'm lacking time, yet again. Haha. Then I'm heading to Hong Kong again on 29th April I think for more shopping and food.
Ahahaha..what did I get myself into. And this is so far. I predict a storm of events brewing and heading my way (especially concerning my band). Haha.
~Mel
| Words from a Movie Junkie. | Sunday, January 23, 2011 |
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Yea well, this is actually long overdue too. So when I get into a holiday mood, I do the one thing that I simply must do during a holiday, and thats to make my brains turn into mush by going on a movie marathon. And so, during the break I had (which was about 2 months), here's the list:
1. Let Me In
2. Unstoppable
3. Role Models
4. Ice Age 3
5. Watchmen
6. Batman: The Dark Knight
7. Backup Plan
8. Someone Like You
9. Twilight: Eclipse
10. Shutter Island
11. Monster
12. G.I. Joe
13. Star Trek
14. Troy
15. Into The Storm
16. Brideshead Revisited
17. The Incredible Hulk
18. Doubt
19. Wit
20. Wuthering Heights
21. Law Abiding Citizen
22. I Am Sam
23. Changeling
24. Death Race
25. Carrie
26. Footloose
27. Picture Perfect
28. Centre Stage: Turn It Up
29. Rapunzel: A Tangled Tale
30. The Machinist
31. Phoebe In Wonderland
32. Land of the Lost
33. Love Happens
34. The Young Victoria
35. Twilight
36. Revolutionary Road
37. Drumline
38. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
39. Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
40. Living Proof
41. Social Network
42. Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Threader
43. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
44. Artificial Intelligence: A.I.
45. The Expendables
46. Confessions of A Shopaholic
47. Merry Christmas on July 24th Avenue
48. 12 Rounds
49. Tron Legacy
50. Ip Man
51. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
52. Holes
53. Donnie Darko
54. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
55. Brokeback Mountain
56. Pretty in Pink
57. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
58. The Tourist
59. 2 Fast 2 Furious
Well, its kinda sad to end at 59 so here's 60 even though its watched after the hols.
60. Faster
Obviously, they're not all watched in a cinema, there are the old and the new. The good, really good, and the incredibly bad. The first-timers and the I've-watched-you-a-heckload-of-times.
Incredibly Bad Movie Award: Actually, this is kinda hard. "Faster" pops into my mind first, but thats because its the most recently watched. Compared to some on the list, its pretty..acceptable. I'm contemplating between the Twilights, Meatball cartoon or....okay, the award goes to "Land of the Lost". A completely and utter waste of time. And this movie actually does kill your brain cells, I joke not.
I don't exactly have an Incredibly Good Movie Award because there are a few that are really good but they don't exactly fall into the same category, so it would be unfair to judge. But here,
Repertoire of Good Movies: Shutter Island, Monster, Star Trek, Wit, Law Abiding Citizen, I Am Sam, Changeling, Rapunzel, The Machinist, The Young Victoria, Social Network, Artificial Intelligence, Tron Legacy, Holes, Donnie Darko, Brokeback Mountain.
Well, okay, if you don't agree with my choices, its fine. There are some movies that are actually quite enjoyable like Brideshead Revisited and Revolutionary Road, but they're a bit on the boring side if you're not the type for that kind of movies.
I would love to give you a detailed review on every movie on that list. But right now, I really need to watch this video about ECGs so we'll just leave it at that, shall we? :)
~Mel
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