A year gone by....

Yes, I realize that my last post is dated somewhere in April 2007. It's been a year! I am no longer a first year and I am sitting in a NEW room in Melbourne. Many changes occured in my life since that last post. Thinking back to last year, I think I've grown to be wiser...Maybe not that much wiser of a person, but hopefully enough to be 21 years old this year. A challenging year ahead on the academic side of things. But frankly, I'm pretty excited to live out 2008 with a bang. Not my birthday yet...but I've earned a Freedom Key in advance from my Mum...Now, that's something to celebrate about!!!

P.S. I am currently working on horrible Stolen wireless internet. With a laptop that's ready to wipe out everything I've written for this blog so far. So i am not about to take the chances of writing a super long update. Look forward to one soon though! (When I have a PC and my 90 Gb internet going)

Love Love Love

In the Life of a First Year Vet Student

A dead dog. An evil smile.

Don't misjudge me. I LOVE animals. Live ones.Sorry I haven't been updating. Just got caught up in so many other things that I sort of didn't have time to blog. I wish I could say I have been busy studying, and although ThAT sHould bE the reason, I think I have been doing a whole lot of other things. Vet science has been great so far and I love the animal handling pracs. The workload is crazy though and much has been expected of us, Vet Students. Here's me cutting up and skinning a dog. I have always been disgusted by the thought of skinning a dog but I guess the pracs have been kinda...hmm..fun. It's actually darn tideous identifying muscles, nerves, tendons, ligaments... *sighs*

Two days later shall be my third doggie dissection prac.

The early morning dead dogs stench.

It's very welcoming when you just had a bowl of cereals not long ago...

Trust me. =)

Here's me obviously not paying attention in prac.

There has been other practicals where I actually work with the live animals... It's way better since they can actually respond by kicking you in the face (Thank god I'm not so fortunate to have experienced that..Yet) or sinking their teeth into your arm.

Here's me working on the horse which sunk his teeth into my arm. And he gets a nice stroke for doing that.....

Riian and Ton "catching" the horse...

It's fun getting someone to lift you up in the open...Where all you can see is land...and cows. Hahaha....feels so...country.

Farmgirls... Priya, me, Esther...

Here I am with Ella, just moments before we ran around in cattle dung during our little drafting experience...

Hmm...the alternative delicacy to Ox's tongue....Cow's tongue anyone?

Pick a cow....and I'll get the tongue out for you... =)

"Now, this is how you elbow a cow after you headlock it......."

It may seem like we're in the process of torturing the cow....(don't worry...no harm was done to the cow while taking this photo)

Riian who drives us to Werribee and Ton who.... hmmm..

The girls in overalls...

Ella ME Riian..

I wish I had photos from the Sheep and Pig pracs as well...too bad I didn't bring a camera with me then...Somehow, I don't think I would have been holding my camera while wrestling a sheep heavier than I am or....be taking photos of 300 kg Pigs as they push me around...

NOW....for the more glamarous, non poo-related side of Vet...

VET BALL 2007!!

What a better way to start off than a picture of ME? Kekeke

Amber and Joanna...

Ton...Albert...

A Group photo in front of a mirror, for some reason...

Ton, me, Horace and Steven...

With the girls from Hong Kong...Emily and Colleen..

Crazy Tim the vegan...

There's something very REd about this shot...

Jimmy...just too cute..

ViC!

Hmmm.... =)

The girls...while wating for a cab which never came...

Jonathan....

Well....that's it for now...Oral presentation tomorrow and here I am fussing about the blog. Hope you guys enjoyed the brief run through of how I'm doing here.

Muaxx...

Kelene

Vet School, Finally!!!

Well, I'm back in Melbourne for quite sometime now but time seems to pass me by day after day that I didn't actually sit down and take a breather, let alone create a new post.

O week kicked off the very first week I was in Melbourne and I had loads of fun knowing more peeps, touring the safari and visiting the police dog training centre. Here are a few snapshots of O week with the Vet people...

Here I am with Ella....we had a chance to take a photo with a member of the police dog squad and his extremely smart (and way adorable) black Lab.

With the girls and Mr. Hippo at the Weribee Safari.

Messing around with the horn of some animal in the "Safari Bus".

In our cowboy hats....all ready for the Country and Western barn dance out in the open air on the last night of O Week

What is an Aussie party without its boost.....
and heaps of people dancing about in sync...???

This is a few of us resting on hay after hopping and skipping around, trying deperately to keep up with the dance steps...

All in all, O week was fab.

Well, that was O week...now here's a little about how I spent my first CNY away from Malaysia... I spent it working!! I worked at some CNY street festival in Chinatown under the scorching heat of about 36 - 38 degrees Celcius. And worse, we were actually BBQ-ing satay sticks under a tent! But, I guess it was a whole new experience for me...Towards the end, we were shouting out for people to buy food from our stalls at extremely low prices. I was screaming "Chicken rice for just 5 dollarSS!!!! Closing sale!!! Come get your chicken rice!!!!"

A rather new experience for me I suppose. Oh well, I'd better get back to reading anatomy... There's just so much to learn in Vet, you'll die if you don't study every single day. No kidding. Off to grasp the book of Vet Anatomy...LAters, friends!

Kelene

Picture fest!

Ring the bell of 2007!!!!

May all your new year resolutions be achieved...

(for once in your lifetime, at least try to fulfill them, people!)

These photos are upon request by an ABC friend of mine currently residing in the ever so beautiful city of Melbourne (bleh!). Sorry guys that I haven't been uploading because Streamyx is horrible and my laptop is down with the flu. So, you probably won't hear anything from me till I am comfortably starting off the new semester in Melbourne. MEanwhile, here's what I have been up to in Malaysia. CheerS~

Dear ABC, enjoy the pics! Signed, FOB xx

With my gal friends at The Curve, KL just hours before 2007 arrived...

Below : Playing tennis with Swee early in the morning...(no one else woke up except Duke cos he lives next to the courts)

Three pairs of twins (so they say....) The two guys are biological twins, the two girls on the right are sisters but me and the other girl, we have no blood relation whatsoever.... Believe it!

Below, pictured with my Melbourne bestie, Sze while shopping in the streets of Bangsar...

Meet Jocelyn, my lookalike and good friend in the car on the way back from KL.

Trying to be kids again to no avail.... Do Re Mi Fa....ohh...where's the So? This was taken while waiting in line for a cable car ride in Kek Lok Si temple.

Below is a great friend and listener...the sweetest ever Cynthia...

On a mission to steal a strawberry (only to be caught red handed by my sis who took this photo)

Last but not least, above is a photo taken with my little cousin, Zoe Yi...isn't she a princess?

Recap and rewinddd....

*snap* *wink* *boo!*....Whatever....how do I describe the shortest time frame in words? "CLiCk?" The year went by just like that. It's hard to believe that my first year in Uni has come to an end. It feels a little weird. But then again, I was thinking, the year before went by pretty quick as well...so, heck care....time flies, whether you like it or not!

The main thing is, exams are over. I'm hoping for the very best. I am this ---1mm--- close to getting into Vet Science. All I have to do is pass all my subjects this semester. If I mess up, at this last hurdle, I won't know what I'll do to myself......

Sighs.....well, I felt that it was only appropriate if I did a little recap on my life this year.....

The year started off with me celebrating Chinese New Year....That's my eldest sis on the upmost stair, followed by me in the middle and my little cousin, Zoey on the right (We had to bribe her with a piece of cookie to take this photo)....

I went to Melbourne not long after CNY and then, got a couple more piercings on my ear...

I got a job at Hawkers' Cafe and gratefully enough, got to know a bunch of fun-loving brats there...

I had my 19th birthday with a bunch of...g..uys? Hmm....I swear there were girls there too!!!

I took a couple of unusual photos along Great Ocean Road...I hate to admit this, but yeah, I am the one with the green sling back....I look awkwardly...retarded.

I wore a Leprechaun's hat at the Royal Melbourne Show and took some brilliantly colourful shots...

I watched my friend graduate and then day dreamt about MY graduation...

I drank Bubble Tea every odd day during classes. It helps keep me awake during lectures.

I was made to sacrifice countless living things for the sake of the study of Science. I finally countered my cockro-phobia in this bio prac....( How do you like my drawing? )

I shared muffins with Wei Jin during lunch on 3 occasions...we tried all three kinds of muffins sold. Here's the one with berries (half eaten, from top view). I can't help but thinking it looks like the muffin has two eyes and lipstick on.

I guess that's about all I will include in my recap. Other more recent photos have yet to be uploaded. I guess there's more to tell when I get back to Malaysia in 5 days....Currently, all I have been doing is meet up with friends as much as I can and clean up my tornado swept room before I head back for a looong 3 month break....

Kelene