First Week of Uni

Whew.
So first week of uni is finally over.
hopefully from now on there'll be less confused thoughts, muddled schedules and lost wanderings around the campus trying to find a classroom in the wrong side of the building with 5 minutes till class start ( No, that did not happen to me)
So Health Psychology and Health Sociology was utterly boring. With a teacher who looks like Anthony Hopkins and seem to have more life troubles than him ( which he wasn't hesitant to share with the class)
Nursing 3 was really quite ok considering what a boring subject it was, thanks to a great teacher.
Law and Ethics really rocked cause of the super cool Greek lady teacher we had who really really put everything into perspective and made the whole thing a debate. Makes me wanna take up a Law degree instead!
Haha, but I won't for the moment...
All in all, uni is exhausting!
Haven't even started week 2 and am checking to see when the next holiday break is...
Readings, printing lcture notes, SO many things to do before going to a class!
Boy, we were really spoon-fed back in the days of Malaysian-pinafore-wearing -high-school I realize that now.
Whew.

What's it like for them?

As you all know ( as I have complained and ranted and gone on and on about it as well) I work in a nursing home with old people.
I've got those who are bedridden but still clear-minded, those who only need minimal assistance with their daily needs, those who are fuzzy-minded and demented, and worst of all, those who are both demented and bed-ridden.
Whenever I'm attending to them, I'm always wondering ( I even drift off on my thoughts sometimes and forget what I'm doing with them but that's not the point), what's it like for them?
Well not the lucid ones so much, it's easier to understand how they feel. Frustration, helplessness, hopelessness, anger, fear, confusion, depression. Its easy to feel that way in their situation when they find out they can't do what used to be easy for them. Not being able to drive, not being able to shower oneself, not being able to go out whenever and with whomever they please, it's no suprise some old people who live long enough in nursing homes try to commit suicide, no matter how good the quality of care is.
But I often wonder about the demented patients.
What do they see?
What do they feel?
How does the world look like from their eyes?
Do they see the world as a baby might see it? With many foreign and strange things they have never seen before, with many things they have yet to learn about yet?
Do they see the world through their past? Do they actually see their family walking around them and talking to them like in the past even though there's no one there? Or do they just lose touch with the surroundings and imagine themselves in situations from the past?
I see them sitting there sometimes, in that same seat sometimes for the whole day. Only getting up for meals and toileting sessions. And I wonder what goes on in their heads all day long because they seem so lost in thought.
Do they spend the whole day wondering what they're doing there, what they're names are, and how old they are?
Do they just go blank and think about nothing at all?
I wouldn't want to be them, no sir, but I'd just like to know what it's like for them. Maybe take a quick little peek into their thoughts like Harry Potter did with Dumbledore's memories. Then maybe I could understand better, and know what it's like for them.

Awakenings

I watched this movie last year and it had such a huge impact on me I can't help but blog about it and tell the whole world to please please please watch it!!
It's quite an old movie, probably made somewhere in 1990, but don't let that deter you.
This is a true story about a doctor ( Robin Williams) who encounters a group of catatonic patients. He slowly finds out that they all have something in common and through that, finds a way to bring them out of their catatonic state.
This movie focuses on Leonard, played by Robert De Niro very very well and memorably as one of the patients who has been influenced the most. He falls in love and starts to live life again. I cried buckets and buckets and buckets of tears during this movie ( I know, I know, I always cry at movies but this is different! Seriously!). It's a beautifully made movie and worth watching to reming you of how precious life is and how we have come to take certain things in life for granted.
It reminded me to look around, and appreciate everything we have.
I'm gonna watch it again.

Spring

Cindy and I were pretty bored last year before she went home so we decided to go out and sit around in the grass outside Hosanna Heights, which is where I live. Of course we brought the camera out with us and took advantage of the sun and all that green, green grass.

I was looking at these pictures and realized again what a beautiful place we live in, and how nice it is to just sit around out in the open on the ground with nothing on our minds and nowhere to get to in a hurry, just watching the cloudless blue sky and just taking it slower.

We hurry so much in life, I think we should just stop sometimes, take a look around, and just breathe in deep the beauty and tranquility God gave us.

First Day Of Uni

So today I start my first day in Flinders University.
Started at 0800 and finished at 1800.
Yes, of course I was tired. I was so tired I felt like my brain had died.
Today was all lectures. I had 6 lectures in one day, which might probably also explain my brain's death. And I have to say after today, I don't quite like lectures after all.
Neither do I like tutorials because of all the efforts I have to put in to prepare. Uni is tiring, and complicated, and confusing.
And to rub salt in the wound, my building, which is for Nursing, Midwifery and Education students has only about 2 guys out of a group of 10 students. Maybe even less. I understand these are feminine topics, it'd be weird for a guy to study to be a midwife. But there goes my image of all these beautiful people sitting on the grass under trees studying and hanging out today as if without a care in this world.
TV is deceiving.
Maybe tutorials will be much more interesting.
Fingers crossed!

Little Miss Sunshine

I don't know if anyone actually listens and take heed when I ramble on and on here about what movie I watched and what I thought about it here on my blog but believe me, I wouldnt waste my time going on about it if it wasn't good or significant.
Watch Little Miss Sunshine.
It's a beautiful movie, one of those classics which will really make you cry and laugh and cry and laugh again until tears are flowing.
This is a story about a family. A dysfunctional, messed-up family. Parents are on the brink of divorce and bankruptcy, uncle's a depressed man with suicidal intentions, brother's a weird guy who has taken a vow of silence and works out all the time, Grandda's a heroin junkie, and the little girl ( most normal one in my opinion) is a less-than-perfect-looking girl with a pudgy belly and big-ass glasses who wants to be a beauty queen.
They all take a trip to California for the girl to join a beauty pageant called Little Miss Sunshine and along the way, learn how much they love each other and what family is.
Yeah it's cheesy I know but the movie most definitely isnt, I kid you not.
Watch it, rent it, whatever you do, just get your hands on a copy, you'll know what I'm talking about. XD

Things I've Learnt from Scrubs

I have increased my vocabulary since watching Scrubs.
I've learnt new words that I'm not even sure exist in the English language!
Hairmet- a super tall helmet with a lot of hollow space inside that gives your head protection, and also doesn't mess up your hair!

Blerd- a black nerd

Blaxican- A baby of African American and Mexican heritage.

Ahhh. The stuff you learn from TV. :)