Hi from Adelaide!!!!

heyo people of pm16!!!

am currently doing Dentistry in the Uni of Adelaide.

one of the buildings in the Uni of Adelaide

I LOOOVE dentistry =D haha.. i love teeth in general.. so everyone.. open wideeeeee.... *insert evil laugh*.

my locker =)

Things here are handled quite differently compared to college; we are split into tutorial groups and they MAKE us discuss things based on certain case scenarios. Initially i found it quite hard to get myself to speak up, but now i think i'm starting to get used to it, but i find it annoying, and sometimes a bit boring.

all our classes are interlinked, so whatever we discuss in tutorial groups and also lectures, we get to practice on each other in the clinic. it's fun, but a bit stressful cause i dont want to hurt my classmate or cause bleeding etc. it's really nice that you would really get to feel what it's like to be in a clinic, move the dental chair up and down.. give the patient spaceship rides...lol. 3 of us share a dental chair and would rotate the role of being the operator (dentist), dental assistant and the patient. so really, it's a matter of poking and being poked. haha

teeth probing

currently i need to collect extracted teeth so i am passing jars out to dentists. i got a jar already and it looks kinda gross because of all the tissue still attached to the teeth.. all floating around. but i dont have a picture of it and i passed it to the dental hospital to be sterilized. will post a pic up when i get another jar back. oh yeah and once we were all told to not brush for 2 days so we could look at plague build up in the clinic. kinda gross. but just FYI, it takes the about 2 weeks of no brushing before you start getting a bit of gingivitis. caries would only come much much later. but really, dont get any ideas though. brush.

then there is the pre-conceived idea that dental and med students are just people who study all day and dont party, but in reality they party so hard, it's scary. social gatherings are just excuses to drink. haha. i've been to two parties held by the dental students society, and it's all free flow of alcohol and so quite a few people get drunk. since am a freshie, i get to go in for free. haha. the last gathering i went to was held in our common room in the dental hospital basement, so they had flashing lights and loud music and dancing, a very club like atmosphere. it was fun. the med students have more of such events, you can ask Karim about it. a very best thing about our common room besides the tv and couch is that they have a pool table!!! and it's FOC!!! hehehehehhehe.. better than asia cafe, though the table and balls are smaller. it's free so am not complaining. =)

ADH

Adelaide isnt a very small place, but it really is a quiet city. there really isn't much to do.. sure there's clubs, pubs and bars (even gay ones and strip clubs!),  and casinos but since am not into any of those activities, nothing much for me to do. the streets are really quiet on most nights and on weekends, a lot of shops are closed. quiet the opposite of Malaysia. They have really a really nice Botanical Gardens though and also nice public beaches. The only beach i've been to in Glenelg... palindromic name cooooollll.. nice white sand very fine, kinda like the sand in Redang. it's cold and wet now... very unfun.. seems to be raining the whole day and for the next week, i see only one spot of yellow on the weather forecast. sad. i miss malaysian weather. the grass is always greener on the other side???

random stuff on Rundle Mall (which is a street) during Fringe week

Garden of Unearthly Delights ( it's a fair, with a funky name)

Botanical Gardens

Glenelg Beach with a few of Karim's friends

Sher Lynn and Karim are the only 2 pm16 ppl here, unlike the whole gang in IMU. you guys must be having so much fun together. I see Sher Lynn from time to time, but it is harder to catch her because we're not really using the same campus, most of the time she's in the main campus while i am in the dental hospital. I meet Karim almost everyday, because our campus are located right beside each other and sometimes I use the lecture halls in the Med Sch and also for other obvious reasons. we cook together almost every weekend. so far so good, we've not disappointed our tastebuds yet =P and no.. no food poisoning. hahaha.

Karim on dish washing duty in my kitchen

yummmmmmyyyy =)

The last gathering we had was when a few of us girls and guys went to Harbourtown. it's this isolated shopping place where there is nothing in the area except retail outlets. stuff there are cheaper too. hehehehehe.. shopper's paradise. =) it was good fun shopping for us girls, not too sure about the guys though.

with billy 

waiting at Harbourtown's bus stop with colin

in bus

Living out for the first time is really quite different. so much things you have to do by yourself, the cooking, laundry, walking etc.. i really miss being driven around. i guess i really have been pampered. and i miss my cats *sniff* but all in all, it really is a good experience, being out on your own, meeting new people, having a bit more freedom to do things your way and learning that you can actually make great tasting food. =P enough rambling from me.. what about you guys???? will be back in july. hope to meet up with you guys and do loads of catching up! take care!!!!