Somehow I didn’t realize that my first final is less than one week away. I’m starting to feel the pressure and have finally started to study today. Unfortunately I won’t be able to give updates on events that have recently occured, but I promise to be back on May 12th to update, maybe even before that. Until then, I’ll be locked in my cave attempting to study.
I’m excited that 2 years have already passed me by. One more year until rotations, and then a year of rotations before the real world. :sigh:::
I have been looking forward to Friday for a very long time. My last midterm was last Tuesday, but so many things happened afterwards that it left me with barely any time to myself. Right afterwards was the annual broomball game. Unfortunately, this year we didn’t win. It was a tie. There hasn’t been a tie since 2000 and every year since, we had won. Oh well, I think both sides played an amazing game.
I finally finished watching soulmate on Thursday night. I told myself that I wouldn’t mind losing sleep over the drama and that’s exactly what happened. I stayed up until 3am and powered through the last 8 episodes. It was an amazing drama and I will be back to talk about the concept of a soulmate later.
So, to my main topic today. On Friday, Mariah, Johnson, Phuong and I went to the CA Science center and explored. I believe I have been there but probably not since elementary school. It’s too bad that a lot of the machines were broken, but then again you shouldn’t expect too much given the fact that admission is free besides the donations that people give the museum. I’ll keep this short as I need to get ready for work. Enjoy some of our pictures :P
I was working in the pharmacy today and after seeing today’s date numerous times on computer screens, prescriptions, and signature logs, it finally hit me. Today’s the anniversary of my mother passing away. I can’t believe how fast time has passed us by since that day. So far, already 3 years have gone by. I still have mixed feelings about the entire event. At first I was optimistic that it had some benefit since it seemed to bring the family closer together. People from far away visited, my sister from out of state would call me often. Now, the ties between my immediate family are still close, but everything is far from perfect. Issues of my father remarrying and retiring has brought out a lot of emotions and drama within our family. Things just seem to be falling apart. Certainly, the timing of things seems to be off. I just wonder sometimes how it would all be different if my mother were here. She was a very strong women, and the center of our family. At this point in time, since my older sister, brother, and I are troubled financially (me being in school) it’s hard for us to provide for my father’s retirement, especially if it includes another woman we don’t even know. If my mother were here, things would be ok, atleast for a couple more years.
But what’s happened has happened, and I’m glad she’s in a better place. I glad she was able to free herself from this world which has so much suffering.
I know I said I wouldn’t be back here until Tuesday but I couldn’t resist after an eventful day. I had IV rotations this morning at County. Woke up at 5am and then worked until 10am. Afterwards, I went straight to Monterey Park to a Church for a Health fair. This health fair was held by the Chinese American Pharmacy Student Association (CHAPSA) in collaboration with VAPSA (V for Vietnamese). I was pretty useless at first, just standing around talking to some of my classmates since I didn’t know any form of Chinese. Patients would go up to the educational booth and talk to me in Chinese and I would tell them to wait as I got them a translator. Right when I was getting ready to leave, my help was needed. Fortunately, I had brought with me my intern license. This allowed me to do screenings that included finger pricks. I then walked over to the cholesterol screening booth and did about 10 screenings before I left at 1:30pm. I had originally planned to stay until 12pm to get some extra credit, and then go home for some much needed sleep and studying, but what I can say when patients are in need of my help. I had a great day and was glad to stay the extra hour or so to help out.
I’ve been MIA lately, mostly because it’s been a busy couple of weeks. I’m currently studying for my Therapeutics midterm that’s this Tuesday. I can’t wait until afterwards, because on Tuesday night is the annual Broomball game against the other fraternity, AIP. We’ve been winning for the last 10 years straight and hope that we continue that legacy on Tuesday night.
If you ask me what’s new, I can’t say much. My thoughts are still filled with the same thoughts of the same people. Why I continue to think about them, there’s no explanation. I just can’t wait until summer time. Maybe, going outside in the sun, hanging out with friends, and the occasional weekend classes will help to clear my mind, and bring back some positivity in my life. Until then, see you guys on Tuesday when I update about the game.
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