all in a day

Since starting my second year of varsity as a Biomedical student instead of a Medical student, I hardly remember gushing about any of my oh-so-wonderful (yeah right) lectures. Back in first year, when everything was so new, so out-of-the-norm, so not high school stuff, so exciting, I had heaps to talk about from Colin Quilter's fantastic lectures, to Sean Sturm's critique of my first ever B- essay, to the hot pharmacy dude etc etc. And maybe the motivation to write and preserve all of my Uni memories has diminished due to me turning to pictures for framing our days or perhaps I just got too lazy writing about uni stuff or perhaps being a Biomed instead of Med student means we're not all about study and hence why my posts (or lack of) has been far from my usual topic of conversation.

Like what I've said in past posts, Cam only writes when inspiration strikes or just the night before Biochem exams. Yes, for years now, thanks to Yana and Cik Thana, the two people who inspired and showed me the gifts of writing, I've turned to writing as my pleasure outlet and perhaps for the latter case, to de-stress. But due to our hectic schedule, our crazy study demands from each paper, writing creatively has always taken the back seat in my life. The last time I penned a creative piece was last year for English 121G assignments and even that didn't satisfy me fully. And yes, the story I wanted to get published when I was 14 so cheesily entitled 'Prince of My Heart' still sits uncompleted, draft after draft, somewhere between hard cover books back in Malaysia, collecting dust and cobwebs. And like what I confided in Vanushka, a fellow colleague, if I had things my way, I would be off travelling the world and writing great stories or clinching gold medals at swimming meets. But come back to earth I must for that is not the reality I live in now.

Okay. Sorry for going off topic. I hope I didn't sound too wistful there for as hard as it to not think about what would happen if I had not chosen my current path, I cannot imagine not doing what I'm doing now. You see, I absolutely love learning about ourselves, anatomy, physiology, yes biochemistry (although David Christie is too too boring but so sweet at the same time) included and all the others papers I've got under my wings. I cannot imagine doing economics or law or maths or history (though I must say the history paper on sexual relations as recommended by Tasha sounds rather appealing). And so. No regrets from me.

Back to the topic of the day. Sorry guys. I will get to the point now. Haha. My sister's friend, Salehah, a frequent reader once told my sister that she enjoyed reading but my posts were 'too long!!' hehehe sorry... I don't write a lot. But when I do, let the deprived- writer strut her stuff la!! hehehehe :)

Today, as everyone doing Medsci206 would agree, I had the awesome-mest lecture. 100 Colin Quilter's lectures could not have beaten today's lecture on Parkinson's Disease, the lecture that could easily be the best lecture of my entire degree. Like what I've said before, Colin Quilter makes learning effortless. Today, with Alan Barber, a neurologist giving an easy lecture on Parkinson's Disease, talking about a disease which plagued my maternal grandfather and symptoms which we were familiar with made learning almost as effortless too. But the thing that drove everything home was having a patient with Parkinson's in the same room. I won't say it's cool because how can one say that when this person is plagued with the disease that may eventually be the cause of his death. But it was a great lecture because he so willingly shared with us his exprience prior to his diagnosis and his life throughout the entire 6 years that he's lived with the disease. To see someone facing the disease but yet be so strong and talk about their life was a great opportunity and would have no doubt left their mark in our learning life. I sat there, overwhelmed and in awe, experiencing the fantastic and perhaps the most informative lecture we were ever going to have. We really should have more lectures like that. But then again, we're undertaking a research degree. What do we expect? A mad scientist to bring in his experimental models and start probing them patch pipettes? Or Malcolm Tingle (the sadistic toxicology lecturer) actually start carrying out toxicity testing with paracetamol on students in the Henley lecture theatre like he said he would?

All in a day. Also, last shoutout to Indah!! HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY BABE!!!!! And thanks to Marilyn's absolutely divine cupcakes (reveal the recipe!) which sealed the lovely day.

Okay. Back to studies. Spent an hour writing. Have to unleash the writer in me sometimes and this was good.. and by writing I do not mean physiology lab reports or drug assignments!! hehehehhehehe



From left: Malsha, Marilyn, Indah, Noella, me, Duneeshya