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Hmm…just finished reading two lectures on gastointestinal physiology. Pretty intense stuf..my brain kept on whining, telling me to stop torturing myself and stop for the night and after about 2 hours, yea, decided to give in.

So, I figured I’d write a blog to kind of wind down for the night..to try and temporarily forget about the secretion of gastric acid by the oxyntic cells of the stomach and how our stomach somehow manages to protect itself from being eaten by the acid (in normal situations). Before I started doing this, I skimmed through Jen’s blog. Jen, your blogs makes my blogs look super shallow (even without hers as a comparison, I know its superficial! :p). My cousin, the philosopher…kudos definitely go to you hun :).

Anyway, after the birthday weekend, partying activities have somewhat calmed down. I did celebrate CNY with a dumpling night at Jing’s but that itself was quiet. Figured it was time for me to buckle down and get to work anyway. We were just recently told that we have 3 big assessments in the last week of March..all in the one week! How brutal is that? Ppl are trying to get it changed and all but I seriously doubt that will happen.

What else is new? Aside from work, the house-hunting panic begins once again. Whoa, has it been a year already since I applied for med school? Damn…the thought just crossed my mind. So the whole thing begins again, but this time, I have ppl to live with (Jess T and Jing) instead of roughing it alone :p. Can’t wait…its going to be so so awesome :). Oh, and yea, we’ve started to plan easter break trips. Am dying to go to Barcelona but the flights are super expensive from here. May forego it this year and head over to Dublin and Galway instead. Afterall, I should probably explore the place I’ll be calling home for the next 4 and a half years…:p. But we’ll see how it goes..am still trying to swing the Barcelona trip..I want sun damnit..sun!

Right…I’m definitely rambling pointlessly now…will update soon.

Big 23 birthday came and went this last friday and saturday. Had great fun…went out for dinner at Scott’s (had bruschetta with parma ham, olive paste, spinach leaves, tomato and a yummy wild mushroom risotto with parmesan cheese shavings and baby spinach) and hung round there for drinks. This was followed by a trip to Havana Brown’s. I had never been there before but hey, apparently its 23 and above so what do you know, I had no problems getting in :p. I managed to get all of us into the VIP lounge which was really really nice as you were far away enough from the dance floor, so you didn’t have to yell half the time. Music was mostly top 40 (mixture of R & B, Hip hop and house) and well, for once, the crowd was older :p.

So yea, Friday night was a big night..drank, well, quite a bit, lots of different shots here and there, which of course led to some very funny and somewhat embarassing outcomes. I’m not going to put up the photographic evidence of that event in question but like if you really really want to know, just leave a comment and I’ll tell you what it is..;)

Sat night..went out with the housemates for dinner and drinks for my and Jenna’s birthday. One of my housemates, Jenna, turned 24 a week before I did. Went to dinner at this place called Eastern Tandoori, which I have to say, has the best Indian food I’ve had so far in Cork. I ordered keema naan which had minced lamb on it and balti chicken. Was so so full after that but it was so yummy. We then headed of to Long Island for drinks but for some strange reason, 2 of my housemates couldn’t get in. Apparently they had upped the age limit to 21 and well, 2 of them were obviously under 21 so yea, it was slightly upsetting. We then decided to go to Suas. I had been there before and liked it but I wasn’t sure bout the age limit. But they didn’t even check when you went it so it was all good. Had two cocktails (lady killer and appletini) and then decided to call it a night. I was feeling pretty tired due to the night before.

All in all, it was a good weekend. Did no work at all but I hope to get at least 5 respiration lectures done today (yea, emphasis on the word HOPE :p). So need to catch up on FM 1002 so I can move on to FM 1003. But to everyone who came out for my bday (Vanessa, Vicky, Jen, Jing, Jess, Mei, Brandon, Greg, Hakan, Billy, Dan, Derek and my housemates: Anja, Tara, Jenna and Dan), thanks a million! It wouldn’t have been as good as it was without you guys. Oh and definitely not forgetting the ppl at home, the UK and in Melb..thank you all for all your wishes…those greetings definitely made my bday Love you all!

Wow…is it that time already? In 4 more days, I’ll be 23..pretty scary when you think about it. I know I know, when compared to some of you guys, I’m still younger..:p. But, damn, I’m  23 and still in uni, and even worse, I’m in my first year of undergrad medicine.

I remember having set plans when I was younger..out of uni by the age of 23, a more or less settled career by the age of 27, and marriage and a family all before the age of 30. Funny how things never worked out the way you want or plan them too. As it is, I’ll only be out of med school by the age of 28. Stable career, gosh, probably only by the age of 30 or even later. And damn that biological clock, it just complicates matters even further.. :p. Every plan made has just gone slightly haywire. These turn of events, well, its made making decisions and realistic planning tougher. And yes, as much as it saddens and frustrates me, I know I can’t have it all..I’m going to have to allow one aspect of my life to suffer slightly at the expense of the other.

So, yea, another year begins and I become a year older. They say wisdom comes with age, so let’s pray that the lightning bolt of wisdom does strike me this year as I am so desperately needing that jolt of inspiration right now, the inspiration to make the best and right choices for my loved ones and myself.