The Lazy Song

Today I don't feel like doing anything
I just wanna lay in my bed
Don't feel like picking up my phone
So leave a message at the tone
Cause today I swear I'm not doing anything
Nothing at all! XD

I have finally completed my first block exams yesterday, which is a pretty big thing since it accounts for 7-8% of my first year. I am truly thankful that today was a holiday because I badly needed a break and unlike Malaysia, holidays here are hard to come by. Holidays here are almost equivalent to GOLD. (Believe me, they almost wanted to start the second half of the semester today..O.O)

I think everybody here was so relieve that examinations were over although we've really only been here for less than three months. Life here is VERY HECTIC and as you've noticed from the reduced frequency of me blogging. The adrenaline rush and the stress from studying medicine can really make or break someone.

There is really no room for procrastination in medicine because even if you did study consistently, it is tough to completely memorise everything in depth due to the volatility of the information. For example, one may be able to remember the entire muscles of the sole and their respective attachments (there are about 20 different muscle) but may face difficulty in recalling all of them by 1-2 days time!

In fact, medical course trains one to think that procrastination is totally not worth it because it can really drive people mad nearing examinations. There are times when I even felt guilty for watching one 45 minute episode of Glee just to destress. We have even been mugging so much that we never even realized the 2010 Commonwealth Games came and was over! (Notice the irony?=P)

The long hours of lectures have also forced me to change my lifestyle. I had to learn multitasking (studying while munching a Subway sandwich), have sleepless nights as I burn the midnight oil studying and tried to absorb as much as possible from my 8am to 5pm lectures so that I need not revise so many times. It didn't help that I missed one week of lectures because it felt like I have miss a whole month's worth of workload! Time became more and more precious to me that I sometimes take the extra 5 minutes between each class to study up things I have missed out during my one week of absence. I would rather get food via delivery than to go out and eat as a pretext of "not wanting to waste time".

Honestly, I did nerd out too much until I could feel my social life slowly degrading. . .Plus, being an Asian-oriented medical school, there is really very little de-stressing outlets here. Social activities are scarce as the university feels that its students should place ultimate focus on their education (totally the Asian style). Moreover, people are so busy coping with medicine that we just shut ourselves in our rooms to continue revision after lectures. Or to sleep since our brains are too saturated =P

The only thing that still keeps me hanging on was the beauty of the subjects itself. Although they are tough to memorize, I am completely immersed into them. I can finally feel the complete joy of learning despite the stress and there is not a subject that I particularly hate, unlike in high school. I may be overwhelmed by them (like Anatomy), but I still feel happy poking and finding for muscles or nerves or vessels on the cadaver during every dissection period.

I have to admit that I may have mismanaged my method of studying or my time during this first three months. The "personal-detachment-alternate-dimension" state was also one of the issues that affected my studies. I messed up my Anatomy first block exams. However, I am feeling optimistic about block 2 and this time, I hope I will be better prepared.

But today, I REALLY DON'T FEEL LIKE DOING ANYTHING. =P