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Yes! I'm now pursuing my year two in Biomedical Science.. year two, first week was tiring and stressful in some aspects..
One of it was that my year one class have to split due to our various options.. i have choosen the medical technology option while many of my friends have choosen cardiac technology option.. in my clique there are cynthia, shumei, sarah and kim fang.. i miss them so so much! even though we take some modules together and therefore have lectures together, it feels very different. they are no more my classmates anymore:(
Secondly was the work load for my year two. For this semester, we have to squeeze the entire semester into one term of 8 weeks! 4 modules within 8 weeks, which is almost equivalent to one module in 2 weeks! no it's lesser than that because week 8 is mst week, thus, its 4 modules within 7 weeks. 2 modules are in-course assesment (ica) modules while another 2 are not. though this may seem like a better option, it have its own fair share of disadvantages. one of which was that i would be having quizzes and test like once every two weeks and non-stop projects. Lab work has been increasingly tougher now as questions posted to us are rather vague and there's lots of self-learning and research work to be done.

First day of school, i was already very stress due to the sudden change in school and classmates. I came back home and poured out all my anxiety and worries to my mother. I thank God for giving me such a caring mother, who has been there all the while. Mummy, I LOVE YOU!(: She listen to me intently and gave me really good advice. She told me that in life, we are bound to face this kinda hardship and disturbance. She thanked God that i knew what was coming ahead of me on the first day of school, which is much better than packing all my workload if I'll would to wake up to life weeks after.. She tries to solve my problems and also advice me on how to should change my attitude to this stressor. She then prayed for me and asked the LORD to help me in my life and studies.. She told me not to be stress out too much. After praying and crying it out, I felt much better!
However, as days pass by, I have been still stress-out by my school's workload. This mountain has never decreased (but i'm clearing as much as i can right now(: ), my appetite has decreased tremendously and i've fret about it a couple of times. I constanly had diarrhoea which i guess was due to my stress level. Well, i've research on it and found of that this was possible due to the adrenaline level and whatever not.. ahahs! For the past few days, I have not been sleeping well and have been waking up quite breathless.. ohman.. i truly gave myself too much pressure.
I now pray constanly asking God for His help. I find I have been a really selfish and rather hypocritical christian as i only turn to God in times of trials.. and sometimes i feel that Jesus shouldn't even be my intercessor to God but throught the past few sermons by pastor, i know that He will not. Jesus Christ is my sympathatic High Priest who understands my sorrows and would be in the best position to minister to me. THANK YOU LORD!
Today, i happen to see a card which mummy wrote for me slightly before my EOY exams.
Here's what she said,

This song has encouraged me alot, including other songs like 'Be Thou My Vision' and 'Wings as Eagles'. I know my LORD would be there to lay life's path for me, take my hand and guide me along. I believe He'll do the same thing for you too!

I pray that the LORD would guide me along, help me to face life trials with patience and a brave christian heart, to manage my time wisely so that i can 'study to show thyself approved unto God', ' a workman that needeth not to be ashamed', ' rightly dividing the word of God'. I pray that in my course of study, I wouldn't neglect the LORD and continue to grow spiritually.. (:

The next thing i look forward to is this weekend's malaysia trip! My family would most likely be going to malaysia for a short vacation during Labour Day. This would definitely motivate me to study well so that i can rest well too!!

gonna study now! bye~

loves,
JOllyn`

It's 4:50am in the morning of a lazy Saturday. The day which most ppl sleep way way past sun rise.
I'm not awake because I need to get up early, but is that I couldn't get back to slp after waking halfway through my sleep at 4:15. So I thought might as well blog since I can't be determined enough to blog regularly. Oh well,... MY THROAT IS FREAKING ITCHY!!! Even though I study biomed, I have noo idea why will our throat itch when we're down with a cold. Btw, I've been under the weather for a few days already. First it started with block and runny nose. This bout of sickness was then accompanied by a slight fever (which I thank God it subsided really quickly). Then sore throat came in and my blocked nose was really bad to the extent I can't taste the chocolate ice cream my mummy gave me. Y'know those kinda block ice cream which ice cream uncles would sell for a dollar with waffles. The only thing I could taste was the waffles, maybe because it was too dry so the taste was easily picked up by my senses. My condition improved progressively as I self medicate with drugs I find in the fridge. Hahas...this maybe bad but WHO CARES! I shout again..WHO CARES! Almost everyone self-medicate before they turn to a doctor when they realise nothing works. Hahas! Ohwell. Sissy said I spread the bug to her when she was the one who came back from her itp sick! Lol.

'nuff said. I shall go on with some happenings in my life over the past few weeks.
Over the past two weeks i've been with Dr. Yeo's year 1 research program in which Cynthia and I are in one group researching on PCR. It was a rather enriching study and a very hands-on practical session for us. We did the whole experiment from the start where we first extracted the DNA from E. coli. Next was to amplify the gene we want through PCR, and lastly was to use gel electrophoresis to view our results. Even though this isn't a graded project or a paid job, I would say I did enjoy myself there as I get to do the WHOLE experiment myself! How awesome is that?! When usually in practical sessions I wouldn't be able to participate in every step as lecturers would divide the experiment into a few workloads which would be shared among team members.

Last Thursday was Daddy's birthday. He met with a car accident that day! Can you believe it? A car accident on your birthday.. Daddy was all alone guess he must have been frightened (to a certain extent). I was totally caught off guard when mummy told me that as I've always believe daddy is a good driver with 30yrs of driving experience! Ohwell. Thank God daddy manage to escape unharmed just that his car was sent for servicing again. Ohya! The first one was on my birthday party day when we were returning back from the chalet. One goon uncle from the back bang straight into our car. Thank God that everyone was save as there wasn't any injuries at all. Seriously, we have a gracious God whose mercies endured forever. Thank You LORD!(:
Oh! So for daddy's birthday I got for him a business pen which I got it in changi airport transit(:

Can't remember what did I do on Friday. Shall check my diary later hahas.
Saturday I went for choir. Hmm.. Uncle Dennis (church choir master) felt that the choir isn't giving him respect he is due. I'm sure they know themselves. I too admit that in the starting of my service as a choir pianist I was skeptical of his leading abilities in the choir as he wasn't professionally trained. However, through many presentations, I realise that why do we need professional help when we have an almighty God who would grant strength to His children? Yes! Indeed God helped the choir tremendously! This enables us to be the standard in which we are now(: I also see uncle Dennis' great effort to keep the choir going and how he would try to improve as a choir master.
Oh. Some other things happened too. All I can say was that I've put in the effort but cold attitude was smack into my face. F. I'm not gonna bother anymore.
Youths next. It was a preaching given by uncle jeremiah on mormons. I learnt that we have to be really careful of anti-Christ around us. How we could prevent from falling into their trap as well as how we could use the Bible to rebut that false doctrines. Games by Cornelius was fun! I truly enjoy every session of such quizzes hehes. Youths then celebrated the birthdays of march and april babies, Hwan and I were the birthday babies hahas! Oh Hwan's a Korean who is studying in Singapore now. He lives with his guardian and other Korean students. I think this is soo cool! I wanna study overseas too! Heh! Andronicus was cute! He wrote a big happy birthday and drew a bday cake for Hwan and I hahas! Cute! Should have taken a picture of it! Dang!
After youths, my family and I went to suntec city to celebrate daddy's belated birthday at a restaurent called 'Mad for Garlic' (ps no pictures as pictures were taken using sissy's phone so check her blog out!). I pretty love the ambience of the place. Wine glasses and bottles decorated the place and that brought out the all atmosphere. The food was superb!! 5/5 rating!! Okay I promise to 'steal' pics from sissy and blog about it hahaa!

Monday, 12 april, I went down to crc to do some recordings. It was a much fufilling time than previous sessions as i've done one whole song and an intro. Thank God! Lunched with Jie Melissa at one of the coffee shop nearby. When she asked if I wanted drinks I said no immediately hahas! Cus she have been treating me for the past few times alr. So nice lars! First time was strawberry pocky and Milo. Second time was my entire meal! I told myself cannot cannot. She's a church staff so I shall not take advantage as their salary isn't alot but sufficient(:

Tuesday, 13 April, went to school at 8am for CLS fo games. In the morning, I took a DACP(diploma in applied science? Smt like pharmaceutical thing.. Sounds cheem only=p) and my partner was chee kiong who is a rather soft person. Like it was quite hard for him to mix with the freshies, dk why... In addition that's his own course haas! Anyway I enjoyed this bunch of kids! Will always rmb them(; later in the afternoon, it was my course juniors turn, DBS! My class was the first to come as they were super early! Cyn, sek, chia and I sat with them chit-chatting with them abt the course and more.. I could say they are a very united bunch as they mingle well even though it's only the first day they know each other. Kudos juniors!(: I enjoyed myself that day too but it was since then I fell sick. Maybe I shouted too much, trying to beat the construction =p

Wednesday I had cya duty. Cya always remind me of starbucks now. Hahas.. As I would treat daddy once in a while to his favourite latte, and my all-time fav choc chip cream!



A pic I took the previous week using lomo effect on my phone. Love it!

Thursday, 15 april, I stayed at home the whole day to finish the drama autumn's concerto. Great show! Would write about it some other time(: had two hours of piano lesson in the evening(:

Friday, 16 April, I went out with my cya friends(nelly, Colin, KJ and Ivan) as well as with sissy. No pics as no one brought cam!:( First up, we went to chomp chomp seafood to have our dinner! It was great! Sambal stingray (x2!), gong gong, sambal kang kong, sambal sotong, carrot cake, chicken wings and oyster omelette! Weewuwee~~! shiockness man! Drinks were on me as I was late:/ hehes. Everyone happy jiu hao!(; hahas. Broken English ttm!
We then went down to novena to have ice cream at udders. Great place and great ice cream too! Had green tea ice cream which I felt it was inferior to other ice cream brands. Personally I prefer green tea ice cream a little bitter if not it wouldn't taste like green tea! Hahas... We had a great chit chat session at udders hahas... And thanks colin for his car! He was nice to drive sissy and I all the way back(;

And today, I'm going for cya camp meeting at 1130 and choir at 2! Gotta leave early from meeting to rush down for choir. No time for lunch at all!!!
Okays. It's 6:12! Blogged so long already.. Tired! Shall slp for a couple more hours(: good night everybody!
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