Yokatta!

yokatta = an expression of relief; this is the past tense of "ii" (good) so it literally means "that was good", but it usually translates as "I'm so glad" or "thank goodness!"
from ~ http://www.flame.org/~calger/animedict.html

The viva list came out online around 4pm this afternoon. My heart was pounding 1000 beats a minute and my nerves were a complete wreck as I opened the spreadsheet file to check if my candidate number was on the list. It's listed in numerical order and as I quicly scan the numbers just above and below my candidate number on the pass-fail list, I heaved a sigh of relief, noting that my number wasn't printed. Unconvinced, I double- and triple-checked it just to be absolutely sure. Yokatta! I did not even bother to check the distinction viva list as I knew I had not done well enough in the previous OSCE as well as on my rotations to be able to get on that list, but no matter, I was 99% sure that I had passed the 3rd year of medical school now. Why only 99% sure? Well, technically the official grades list only comes out tomorrow evening after the vivas, and then and only then can I be absolutely 100% sure that I have not failed 3rd year. But for the next 24 hours, I'll have to make do with 99%. On the bright side though, none of the Malaysian's made the pass-fail viva list (but none made the distinction list either, although I think no one's really too bothered about that tho...) 3rd year was a toughie!

In the last 36 hours, I've only slept a mere half hour (this morning around 11am-11.30am). I couldn't sleep the whole night, just did not feel like sleeping at all. Maybe I was too anxious about the 'results' today, and my subconscious mind was keeping me awake. Anyway, I spent the whole night watching 25 episodes (1 whole season) of a shoujo ('girly') anime on youtube, each episode lasting about 20-25 minutes. Crazy eh. Hence the term 'yokatta', which is commonly used in manga/anime language. ;)

My room is STILL in a tornado-inspired mess, and it really doesn't help when you have one person trying to clean up and rearrange two people's mess, and two junk-loving, trash-collecting people at that. :P Oh well, the girls are coming over to stay tomorrow night, so everything had better be sorted by then, fingers crossed! My brain, on the other hand, is nearing shut-down mode now due to lack of sleep, so I shall stop writing now before it turns ugly (or fugly...). Oyasuminasai minna, ganbatte & genki da ne for tomorrow's result! ^o^

Diet Schmiet!

Blame it on my lack of willpower, but my so-called detox diet has just gone down the drain, unfortunately. I was planning to 'detoxify' my gut (just coz I was eating so much junk the few weeks leading up to the exams & I wanted to clear my digestive system a bit, not to lose weight, people! It just doesn't work that way) by only eating fruits and drinking lemonade/lime juice for a week, but it lasted a mere 3 days before the sweet aroma of carbs and protein and fat (and sambal! See, it's all your fault Viks! jk ;D) got to me yesterday. Oh well, I still have loads of apples and pears to finish before I go home this Friday. Ooh, can't wait (to go home, not to eat)!

Tried to start packing yesterday as well as rearrange the furniture in my room for the next academic year. Somehow it's become something like an annual/term-ly exercise for me since college - I just have the urge to move stuff around my room to create a different atmosphere. Maybe it's because I can't do that in my room at home because it is just too spartan - a bed, a wardrobe (which is stuck to the ground and celing hence you can't move it even if you wanted to), and a huge shelf. No wait, let me correct myself...currently I don't have a room in my house back home. I've been officially 'kicked out' of my room since my mom 'refurbished' it as a newlywed's room for my elder brother and my sister-in-law when they got married a couple of years ago (since he used to share a room with my eldest brother before that).

But going back to my room in the UK...Let's just put it this way, it's not easy to rearrange furniture which weigh more than what I weigh, not when you're trying to do it alone. And especially more when there're tons and tons of files/books/papers/rubbish/clothes lying around the room as well. And the most frustrating thing (not to mention the most tiring) is when you have to take EVERYTHING out of the drawers or cupboard so that it's light enough to move, but after pushing and dragging it to the other end of the room, you decide 'Hmmm, it doesn't look right' and you just shift it back to its original spot! Oh well, I asked for it, didn't I? But at least I don't have to pack and move this summer, which is always good ^g^

On the brighter side, I went (summer) shopping yesterday with a couple of friends. Bought a spring/autumn jacket for GPB5 and a black top for GPB2 in NEXT! Sweet!! How can you resist, when everything's so cheap, and when you actually or eventually find something that you like in your size? ;D Planning to do a little bit more shopping before I go home.

Ack..viva list will be out tomorrow. Anxiety galore! Gonna resume watching Tsubasa Chronicles now and keep on procrastinating with my packing, as usual! And since I can't upload any more images right now (don't ask me why, but it's just refusing to be uploaded. Will try again later), I'll leave you with a few vids of my fav Bleach intro song (season 1 & season 2) and Naruto ending song - I just lurveee the chibi characters! So cute! (yeah yeah...I have kinda weird music tastes don't I hahaha)

Finally...nearly!

My new favourite song: Home - by Marc Broussard (no, not the Michael Buble song)



and this is Kelly Clarkson's version when she covered it on her current Addicted tour, which I think is kinda cool, coz she's covering a relatively new song released by someone her age, instead of some relatively older songs by established older artists:



I'm the kind of person who, when I really like something, I become obsessed with it. And when I say obsessed, I mean playing the same few songs on my playlist over and over and over and over (you get my drift) again until it drives everyone else up the wall. And I don't get sick of it until I find something new to be obsessed about.

And talking about obsessions, you know how some people use the term 'cam-whoring' coz they like (re: are kinda obsessed with) to pose for pictures and post it up and all, well, I came up with a few ___-whoring terms of my own which i'm guilty of:

• emoticon-whoring (as if you haven't noticed by now hahaha)
  
• youtube-whoring
  
• anime/manga-whoring

Actually, I haven't really read much new manga or watched much new anime recently coz I was busy (and downloading them takes too much time/effort/hard disk space), but I've recently been re-reading old manga collections that I have (not paperback versions, all downloaded). Among them are Rurouni Kenshin, Fruit Basket, and Monster. All of them are really good. The only two that I keep up-to-date with are Bleach and Naruto, and both their storylines are currently developing into something more exciting, so I'm keeping an eye on these two for now.

And I've just discovered that there are full seasons and episodes of animes that people upload onto Youtube.com, and I've been catching up with Tsubasa Chronicles (where some of the characters are apparently spin-offs from Cardcaptor Sakura). I just love the opening song and the soundtrack! Very nice



Oh and since we're on this track, this is a montage of Final Fantasy that I found on youtube, accompanied by a fantastic song by Celine Dion called ' I Surrender'. Actually I like the song, not really the montage (which is quite good actually, but I'm not exactly a big fan of FF), but this was the clearest and best video I could manage to find:



I've actually got quite a few more songs that I would like to post up, but I'll leave it for another post on another day.

Oh yeah, and exams' finally over...which is what I initially wanted to write about, hence the title for this post. But the anxiety's not nearly over yet, because we'll only be getting our results on Wednesday (well, technically it's Thursday, but we can almost safely assume that if our candidate number's not on the viva list on Wed, we've passed! *keeping my fingers crossed*)

The two papers last Thurs and Friday were killer ones, and super-taxing on my poor brain. And I just couldn't revise anymore after Thursday's paper coz every other page that I turned to in the Oxford Handbook, I discovered more and more new mistakes that I had made in the paper earlier. Soooo frustrating! Especially for those answers which I had initially answered correctly and stooopidly changed the answers to wrong ones at the last minute.

Have been lazing around in my room the last couple of days. Almost like a hermit, really. Just too lazy to go out or do anything else. Watched Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest on Friday evening after the exams. Thoroughly enjoyed it for the fun & adventure-filled comedy-fest that it was! And Johnny Depp's an amazing actor! Kudos to him

I should really start packing and cleaning up my room now. Later!