All in a day’s life - pre,when and post exam syndrome
Ok, as most of you know, Kk, Not most but a handful of you know i was having my 6aus/6credit final exam today *Sob - as all of my frens other than my coursemates are having quizes, im having final exam and we only reach half of the semester, is week 8 now! In case that you don’t know, all my Traditonal Chinese Medicine (TCM) modules only last for 7weeks, so for a 6 credits TCM modules in 7wks, we need to attend at least, i mean AT LEAST 12hrs of lecture per week as our curiculum do not have any tutorial for TCM. But normally we need to attend around 15hrs of lectures for 1 TCM subject per week as this course is really intensive and the content of topics is a lot, so in order to cover all the topics, we need to attend extra lectures, which will make up of most of my time each wk and this is also the reason why im kept so busy in NTU-lah.I spend most of my time in school attending lectures and clinical discussion (all these do not include me attending my biomedical part’s lecture and the electives im taking ok?) Saturday i’m having internship at Tong Chai Hospital at outram park/chinatown area. Then sometimes i’m working over the weekend/serving in children’s ministry/meeting for some hall stuff. Currently i’m also employed by one of NTU’s department as a student assistant. That’s why i’m kept busy.
But again, this is not what i want to blog about in this post.Haha, being a little long-winded cos ppl keep asking why am i so busy,Lol. So explain here once and for all, if they ask again ask them to read my blog *grin* Let’s go back to what i wanted to write earlier, what happen today was It Was My Big Day - final exam for BS305 - 《傷寒學》! I wasn’t really studying as Mooncake Festival was just over last Tues, i went home for reunion, spent another day slacking making roast chicken before i finally sat down (in my mum’s office), open up my book and study. (Okay, i did pop a lot of little snacks into my mouth when i studied for exam esp in my mum’s office 
)So it was already Thursday!!! I’m only left with 4 days to study, and i still need to travel back to singapore. Gosh…Running really short of time. I became really panicky on Friday when i realised time is short and my brain got blocked! Progress really slowly and things just didn’t seem to be getting into my brain, not even short-term memory. I actually scream in my mum’s office (it was after office hour, 7++pm). Stressed!Initially i wanted to go back to Sg like earlier,prabably Thurs to study, but i really hadn’t been home for many weeks and i really hoped to spend more time with my family. So i brought all my books back to study at home( trying to study to be exact,haha). I left on Saturday morning to go back NTU, embarked on a full-gear study mode.
Reached my room around 12noon on Sat, spent some time cleaning up my room from all the dust when i was away and doing my laundry which i should have done before i went home for Mid-autumn festival =p Finally, i sat down quietly at my desk at 2.30pm to start my revision journey (haha,actually i was still doing notes for the lecture on sat). Ate bread the whole day cos i was reluctant to leave my room to buy food. I didn’t want to break my momentum of study. Milk and bread solved all my meal on Sat. At 9pm, not too long after my dinner (of cos, it was bread and milk), i was feeling really drowsy, tired, eyes pain, been really concentrating all my energy in studying from afternoon, so i decided to nap a while. But my close friend in hall will know my "heng2", i couldn’t wake up after the nap especially when i’m really tired, mentally drained. When my dad called me at 10pm, i was still sleeping and he advised me to continue my sleep if i’m tired. No point studying when my brain could take no more. So i heeded his advice and followed what my body signalled me to do —> SLEEP! So i slept and slept and i woke up at 4.10am!!! Alert and refresh from a really peaceful sleep =D
At 4am, I started my Sunday when my neighbour hadn’t sleep yet. I live a healthy life right? Glad that my dad encouraged me to sleep(i was feeling guilty from sleeping/napping because i hadn’t finish studying) and his encouragement chased all my guilt away. Thanks dad for loving and caring me just the way i am! =) While i was studying, i was thinking, should i go to church? i still have around 50+% of revision to go. No mood. But how can i skip church? I need to be fed on the Word of God. I shouldn’t be dependent on my own strength especially at times like this. If i spent 3+ days to cover 50% of what i need to study, i needed another 3 more days to finish the remaining half. But i had only a day.Sunday.What should i do? I needed a miracle. I know if is by my own strength, it’s impossible.So how? Go church or not? I’m really comtempleted not to go. But i need to refresh myself in God’s Word. At 7.15am, i manage to finish 50% of what i’ve got to study, i had come to the decision. I WILL GO TO CHURCH NO MATTER WHAT. I need to know my priority in life. So that’s my decision. I will go to church. My mind was a little bit drift off during the sermon but i enjoyed the time in church. Learning and knowing that God is my Daddy!!! The intimacy of a father-daughter relationship! How great that can be! Had KFC and bought fruits and sweet potato to stock up in my room. Took a nap again, before i resume my revision session at 2.30pm close to 3pm. I must say, it was AMAZING! I managed to read up the remaining 50%. I closed shop at 11.10pm and i even took a half hour nap at 8.45pm after dinner. That was truly a miracle. Definitely not by my own might nor my own strength judging from the previous experience, it must be God, my Dear Daddy!!! So i slept at 11.30pm, it was a record breaking moment, the earliest time i sleep before an exam!
I woke up at 6.15am, decided for myself to read up the second half that i’m not so familiar with. So within less than 3 hrs, i read through the 2nd half of the topics and all the 湯証 Holy Spirit led me. 10am Exam Time! It was postponed to 10.30am due to the venue availability. The original venue was a little to cramp for 62 of us. So we were changed to a bigger room to sit for the exam. Exam started at 10.40am officially. The MCQ (Multiple Choice Question) was the toughest part of the whole paper, not ABCD, it was ABCDE! And a lot of questions revolved around original text of 《傷寒》.So if you didn’t memorise the verses, you know-lah @.@ The second part of the paper was 原文填空.We were supposed to fill in the blank with the original text. Like 太陽之為病，脈浮，頭項強痛而惡寒。Can can just write 太陽之為病, then ask you to fill in the rest. So if you didn’t memorise again, you know-lah! So when i flipped the pages and reached part 2, I saw 原文填空, a thought flashed in my mind. Don’t know whether this part will be really 原文填空? My answer is 空空??? Haha, Glad that it was just a silly thought.In 2.5 hours, i penned down as much info that i can remember, and I must say, the essay Q’s, i did pay extra attention to it during my revision. I realised and knew in my heart, "i was led by the Holy Spirit when i was revising", if not, how could i have paid the extra attention to these two Q’s instead of the rest of potential essay Q’s??? Praise the Lord! Whew…Love the way God works man… Heez… We were finally released from the exam hall at 1.20pm. Yeah, battle’s over!
"In Him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in His holy name…" Psalm 33:21
MOre to come…BE patient….
Ok,back in action. So what happen is my clique decided to go outing. It was the 2nd Official Outing of my clique after being good friends in class for 2++yrs now ever since we’ve been coursemates (actually i preferred the term classmate cos it sounded closer). Initial plan was to eat JAPANESE BUFFET!!!(i was craving for sashimi and still is craving for it!) Haiz, but the plan went down the drain because one of my friend needed to send her mp3 player for repair so she needed to leave early.There goes my sashimi… But we ended up at Sakae, ala’carte. Although didn’t eat till you drop, the best part of the whole outing was to chill out with one another. My group of friends are the group that go out the least, we don’t go K, we seldom go out to eat, seldom hang-out with each other besides having lunch in school and the list goes on…So our plan is to hang out more before we go over to BeiJing \(^o^)/ Had a really good time, "talking Kok" and joking around. Enjoy the fellowship! After which i went back school to attend my electives at 4.30pm.
It was children’s day… BUt where’s my present???
Realised that it was children’s day. I miss my primary childhood life. I miss the pack of goodie with junk food in it given to each kid on children’s day.
My friend sms me while i was attending electives, so there i went Sheng Shiong along Jalan Bahar for the first time eversince its opening. Yeah, u won’t believe what i bought. I bought Sweet Potato. Huh??? 番薯？？？Yup, sweet potato. It is good for health. But my friend bought a lot, hmm, not a lot but in variety =) Then i physcho him to buy 旺仔牛奶。haha. So that i can try =p It’s actually quite nice. Cute packaging too!!! Reach hall at 9.10pm, just in time for the 9pm show "Metamorphosis". It’s a police show, solving crime…Watch "Identity", a US variety show. Participants are required to match the identity of 12 unknown character. It’s a interesting show.Quite difficult and challenging. Mind boggling and looks can be disceiving.Lol…11pm,I wanted to head back to my room to bath and sleep, so from level 3 i wanting to proceed to level 5. Oops…I got stucked at level 4. Chit-chatting away until almost 1am!!!
It was 2am when i hit the bed…
Today is Wednesday, and i haven’t pick up my mood to study again…
