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so what ifs its a saturday, a bright and beautiful saturday and i am holed up at home with no appointments, no dates, no nothing? listening to chopin in pjs and munching on leibniz zoo keks is equally satisfying. haha. if no one calls within 2 hours i will heave my lazy butt off this chair and go exploring, myself. (:
it was a good week. passed another test! went for 2 concerts and one spanish movie. i want to make banana pancakes! but my flatmate has guests and they're all hanging out in the kitchen... oh well.

la dolce vita

life is good when one raids the fridge for a snack and comes across glorious cake which belongs to very generous flatmate whose very talented friend can bake immensely well. Mmmmm. life is sweet, after all.

the things we learn in anatomy.....

The cremasteric reflex is a reflex in human males.

This reflex is elicited by lightly stroking the superior and medial part of the thigh in a downward direction. The normal response is a contraction of the cremaster muscle that pulls up the scrotum and testis on the side stroked.

One of the favourite questions by my professor is to explain the cremasteric reflex. I am so gonna nail this question. haha. My next test is on the 20st Nov, an oral cum practical exam where i have to show stuff from the corpse and explain them. What fun, eh?

blog on, my friend, blog on.

when i actually do sit down in front of the computer and open up an blog entry, all the words just fly out of my head. URGH. yeah well. i'm just going to blog abt random stuff happening in my life. will start with dissection lessons. take today for example. i was trying to find the nerve and artery pudendus. every session i'm given something to unearth, its like digging for treasure. anyhow. what im trying to say that there's a great sense of satisfaction when one finally, finally, finally finds what one is looking for, because it sure aint easy. there's so much fat everywhere plus we have to be careful not to cut off anything. on the very first day of dissection my groupmate cut off the saphena magus (a vein on your leg thats close to the skin) and our tutor wasnt pleased. haha. and yesterday we started "Anatomie am Lebenden" where we will learn how to diagnose patients, feel for pulse, draw blood, take blood pressure etc etc. fun! haha. yeah though med sch is really tough- the amount of stuff we have to know in a short span of time and plus everything is in german or latin or greek and half the time i have no idea what everyone else is talking about. but other than that, i really like it. i never thought that i would like it so much. there's so much to memorise and mug but. i cant really lay my finger on why i like it, but i just do. anyhow.
for christmas hols i'm going to Italy! ITALY! haha. Rome, Naples and Venice. am super excited. haha.
for my elective i'm taking spanish. spanish sounds so cool to listen to. when my teacher speaks super fast its like i'm just lost in the sounds and cant find my way out again, but in a good way. haha.
the weather is decreasing drastically. its really cold now. i can finally wear my long parkas!!! :D heehee.this morning there was SO much fog it was like i was trapped in a cloud. no kidding. i couldnt see beyond 10meters, i swear. but it was totally cool. :D
today i went to pick up the package from the post office which i sent to myself before i left singapore. everyone shld send themself packages. its totally fun haha. i actually forgot some of the things i sent cos it was so long ago. i packed "uniquely singapore" postcards in there and seeing them again made me miss Singapore so much. those sights on the postcards, the places, the food- they are home. i was once there, part of all that. -nostalgic-

alcohol is my friend

no more moping. clear out your fridge, look at fear in the eye. kick depression. step over rejections. open the window. breathe.
german parties. love them or hate them. on the bad side you have all the smoke that makes your eyes tear, you feel suffocated, the bad and expensive drinks, the terrible trance/techno music. on the other hand, guys who walk past you and half smile and you smile back and he knows you're totally checking him out and you give him the hottest look you can muster and he winks and then he's gone, engulfed by the endless storm of bodies. eye contact flirtation rocks, haha. :D
anyhow. i passed my first german test! celebrated it up real german style, haha. drinking on an empty stomach is a bad, bad idea. but being half-drunk is totally fun. incredibly fun. not drunk when you cant walk straight or have to puke or wake up with a hangover but semidrunk when you wake up you can remember what happened the night before and you have a gigantic stupid grin plastered to your face. xizzy came to visit me over the weekend. we watched grey's anatomy endlessly. she taught me how to cook! we sat at the same cafe for 4 hours with augustine malcolm and defan just talking abt everything there is to talk about between hot chocolate and kaffee and milkshakes and (of course, its never too early,) beer! partying 2 nights in a row is tiring. slept at 5.30am last night. went to what seemed like an endless stream of parties and pubs and clubs, whatever.
the altstadt (old town) at night is magnificant. you own the cobbled streets, the still church, the river flowing silently beside you. you own the moon, the lights, you own the night. and you can laugh and dance and jump because all this is yours, for one night, for one moment and there's no one else but you and her and him and that is all you could possibly want.
today we went for a picnic along the neckar armed with champagne (!) and ipod connected to speakers and lemonade and candy and clementines and chips and gossip and getting to know each other better. :)