The Anticipated Ranty Post

Well, time for a more complete update.

For starters, no I didn't get viva and I dunno if that's a blessing or curse. Results will be out this friday at 5pm and hell am I scared. But can't do much abt that. Guess just hvta use the remaining time wisely.

(hey why am I cursing myself by using the phrase "remaining time"!! I'm gonna have 2 months' holidays... not gonna get resit.. NOOO! erm yeah, I think I'm going cuckoo... oh shucks.)

Anyway, I've not updated or online in the past 48 hours becoz I was busy moving house. Have finally gotten most of my stuff into the new house - many thks to Eugene, Leong and of coz my dear dear! - but a bit lazy to unpack the rest of the stuff tho. I'll probably finish those up tmr. Yoyo procastinator in the house!

I may post pics up of my spanking new room (which is very very nice) after I've cleared up my stuff ya. Patience is a virtue, people. hoho.

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I shall procastinate no more. This part will be rants abt the hellish exam that I went thru the week before. (can't believe it's already a week! omg) You can leave here if you want to. If you have the guts, proceed with full speed ahead. Go~!

SAQ: This paper is worth a total of 35 marks and is the do-or-die paper in the whole 4 days. If you score well in this, congrats, you're already on a good way to a pass. Sadly, moi that didn't finish studying what she shld, and totally screwed up this paper. Which is soooo not good. *shakes head*

Can you believe that I wrote down Brugia Malayensis instead of the correct Brugia Malayi for the cause of lymphatic filariasis? Crazy, right? I was a tad confused during the exam. And didn't have enough time to check back my answers. sigh.

And there were many many other mistakes. Some questions I totally dunno what to write in the blanks given, while some answers I was pretty sure they're hidden somewhere in the crevices of my mind, but it just refused to let me conjure them out. *shyt*

And get this. The questions that came out consisted of a big chunk of pharmaco and microbio. Both of which were my weakest subjects!! Arggh. I wished more patho came out. I think I'm relatively better in that.

I was pretty upset that day. Coz some ppl said it was relatively easy/okay. And deep down in my heart, I knew it wasn't so difficult but somehow I just screwed it up. Maybe it was becoz I didn't study hard enough. Not enough disciplince.

But I cudn't give up. Not so early in the battle. I had 3 more days to try to rectify my mistake as much as possible. Which leads us on to...

OSPE: Totals up to around 24.5 marks With my usual luck, I always started out in the worst station of all the other stations which I cud have started at. *sarcastic tone* That definitely gave me a lot of confidence. Lots of it. hah I wish.

It was the diagram with all the weird arrows asking for parameter E and something that looks like angiotensin-converting-enzyme stimulator. Which was smtg we never learnt before. Panicking, I put the only one I knew off which was remotely similar - its inhibitor. Which turned out to be the answer wanted. Wth with those arrows. Draw properly can?

And the rest was just a flurry of models, diagrams and pictures. I did quite well with those descriptive patho pics, you know lah, I just play play with words lo. haha. Managed okay with the microbio and parasites' pics becoz my dear dear had helped me the night before. Thks a lot! I'm really weak in the subject that deal with creepy-crawlies! eeew!

Some Qs weren't designed too well. They put too many components in that question with the pressure-volume loop. No time to think and answer leh. Not that I dunno it, but hey I think more than 10 separate small Qs (that each needs thinking) to answer in 5 mins is a bit too much.

But other than that, I did relatively okay compared to the day before. And weirdly, almost everyone say that paper was quite difficult. I'm a topsy turvy person heh. Alright, onto the last component.

OSCE: Generally still okay, altho kena screwed by a few lecturers for not knowing well enough or for being blur and saying the wrong things. blek. Spanned a total of 2 days and comes to 10.5 marks.

Tried my best to salvage as many marks possible. I did quite good in history taking, managed to answer most of the Qs. My performance varied for the physical examinations. It depends on the Q given. The best station for me was the liver palpation + liver span + shifting dullness station. Did it perfectly! It helped that the lecturer wasn't particularly menacing. phew.

Can't decide which station was the worst for me. It's either the JVP station (got FIA) or the abdomen station (HA) or the mouth/throat station which I dunno what to say or do. alamak. I specifically mentioned which lecturers I had for some coz they were the reason I didn't perform as well as I cud have. But hey, I heard that they're quite lenient during exams. *prays hard*

And last but not least, if you have been doing the maths, that would still leave a gap of 30 marks, which would come from our past 6 in-course-assessments (ICA) and really pulls you up if you didn't do well in eos3. My performance for that was sometimes good, sometimes bad, so it averages out in the end. But that wasn't from lack of trying. I really tried hard those times. Especially after my first failure during sem2. Sigh, those were bad times.

With that, I think I'm done with writing this stupid ranty post which I don't really have much heart in typing out anyway. Sorry if it's a bit boring. I'm just doing this to keep as a record lo.

Abt the post-exam celebrations, we will see how. Will not promise a post abt that coz lately I seem to have lot of better stuff to do than blog, haha. Having lots of fun and good food! :P

Alrighty, shall sign off now. Keep your fingers AND toes cross for my results this friday.

I'm really scared. But once again, I can do nothing but leave it to the powers above. May all my good frenz pass thru this hurdle safely. Please. See us through this. Let there be another miracle.