where the wild things are = worst movie of all time ever.

andrew however seemed to like it.

so i hate christmas. i'm not the only one, just one of the ones with enought testicular fortitude to admit it.

my mother, a recovering catholic, similiary despises the whole event. we have a family schedule so everyone can pop into my grandmothers at different times and subsequently we call all avoid each other.

that's not to say that we don't do presents - only cos andrew has managed to con everyone into believing that he still believes in father christmas. and so, we all go round the house, finding stuff and wrapping it for each other.

this year i got a scrabble set, a packet of dates, a box of tea and a free sanitarium cookbook-phamphlet thingly that they were handing out at the supermarket.

it's not fair. my mother gave one of her friends a water bottle in the shape of a penis. that rightfully should have been mine.

had uneven sunburn. subsequently have an uneven tan.

made dumplings. end of story.

hmmmm... dilemma.

want to go eat vegan food. no one left to go eat sed food with.

well, i guess thats over then.

http://www.watoday.com.au/breaking-news-national/dont-treat-emotions-as-illness-expert-20091028-hj8z.html?page=-1

i agree.

it would seem that i am the only one left. it sucks. now who will i go eat vegan food with?

what the hell is happening to my suburb.
yes. it's mine. not franko cotsos. mine

don't get me wrong - i love lentil as anything. even despite that rather rude man who yelled at us on ackland street because in his opinion we didn't give then enough money*.

lentil as anything is not my problem. its the hipsters who acompany lentil as anything that bothers me. it's the gentrification and rising property/rental prices in the area that bother me.

my damn suburb is going to the yuppies.

don't get me started on the st.jeromes laneway festival - which is no longer going to be held anywhere near st.jerones, nor a laneway for that matter.



* we gave then about 70$ for 7 people - all in church money - so i guess it didn't look like much; but nevertheless it was and yelling was certainly not called for.

There have now been six confirmed cases of H1N1 Influenza 09 (Human Swine
Influenza) in Victoria bringing the national total to10 confirmed cases.
All cases are all being treated with anti-viral medication. It is likely
that the number of confirmed cases will increase in coming days and
weeks.


It is both timely and important that all staff and students are kept
informed of what they can do to minimise the risk to themselves and
others
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which are both critical to minimise the risk of infection,

Further details on this and other related information can be found on can
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Above all, it is important that if you exhibit symptoms of influenza you
should contact your doctor; you should not come to university if you are
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The University has a specialist group who are closely monitoring the
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"not everyone is smart enough to get into medicine you know" - a quote i have come to loath.

a phrase similiarly repeated far too much in a far too egotistical tone for my liking.

i

"My thought on civil unions? You know what, Greta? I don't have the answers to everything. I'm not running for political office."

CARRIE PREJEAN,
Miss California, when asked by Greta Van Susteren if she believes in civil unions for same-sex couples; Prejean said at the Miss USA pageant that she opposes gay marriage

james is such a freakin playa.
3 days hiking in the middle of nowhere. with three others - all of them of the female persuasion. damn.

in other news, the 87 yo yoga instructor has been offered a fully paid tour of the US. her jokes have been becoming increasingly crude.

Dear Student,

In last week's mid semester test, it was noted that you did not mark
your student ID correctly on the MCQ answer sheets.While you may have
written your ID number in correctly, you may not have correctly filled
in the circles below it. These answer sheets are scanned into a computer
so it is important that you fill this section in correctly so we are
able to identify your answer sheets.

As this test was marked 'in house' we were able to identify your correct
ID number. However, when the assessment is held by the Examinations
Branch, if you do not correctly mark your student ID, you may not be
able to receive you marks for those test pages. Please keep this in mind
for the end of semester exam that is coming up.

--
Regards,
Anna Haley
MBBS Assessment Unit
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences

and another thing, just as it's really fucking mega ignorantto generalise and say 'all muslims believe that....'

you are similiarly a doche when you say 'all vegan believe...'

it's been suggested that male circumscision will reduce the rate of HIV transmission.
may i suggest that completely removing the penis would be a far more effect solution.

"Monopolistic capitalism dictates the quality and quantity
of healthcare purchased by patients and thus produces bias in health
behaviours towards those who can afford their care, either by direct payment
or insurance programmes."

- the commies are invading med

also interesting.

I have bruises all down my spine from doing yoga.
i was using a yoga matt as well.
it wasn't even particularly strenuos yoga. the instructor was an 87yo.

in a bright pink power jumpsuit with huge-arse shoulder pads and a big phat white belt.
red lipstick and blue eyeshadow.
she's one of those people where you can never tell if her eyes are open or closed. (or if she's looking at you)
she had big hair that doesn't move when she moves. (i point the finger at hairspray)
she give everyone lollies after class and hands out photocopies of blonde jokes.
she full out yogaz me.

intesting.

A nice,tidy and quiet townhouse,live only 4 people(including you) in three bedrooms double story townhouse,airconditioner|central heating system,new utilities and furnitures,$230 pw with three meals a day,10 mins walk to clayton campus and clayton shopping centre,ideally English speaking invorenment.call 042322xxxx

"bounce like you ass has hiccups while we riding in my pickups"

this whole time i though it was drug barons/gangsters playing the bad black rap music.

it's not. it's the indians.

to clear something up:

i can drive a manual. i have no trouble changing gears or doing a handbreak start.

i cannot however drive a car that requires three arms to turn the steering wheel at a reasonable speed. otherwise know as an '84 telstar. otherwise known as a car without power steering. otherwise referred to by my grandmother as the 'chuff-cutter' (because it sounds like ride on lawn mower)

eating my breakfast with a quantas spoon.
yes, you heard me right, i stole cutlery from an airline.

speaking to sophy, who i ran into at the monash interview, and who had her interview directly before mine.

apparently we had the exact same interview.
same people: indian lady, nice middle-aged woman, and stone-faced doctor-man
same questions: drug testing, 'Daniel', and same de-tech term (we both felt we were jibbed,having heard what a couple o' other people got)

samuel,does this sound like anybody.

people told me the 'pain' would hit the second day.
it's true that my face is certainly swollen. but i wouldn't say it's particularly painfull.
ie. haven't taken the painkillers today.
really bad at taking the pills in general.
currently worrying about a lack of penicillin (forgot/eat constantly) and the possibility of infection.

wisdom teeth done. can't feel face.

so, went to the enrolement infor day thingy for the med.
it was a hour long talk which can basically be summarised as: hand in forms on time.

some of the med student societies wee also there.
now, correct me if i'm wrong, but does this sound like a swingers event:

MUMUS '08 Med RUBIX Cruise

Tuesday 11th November
7:45pm – Midnight
Central Pier, Docklands

Idea is to come dressed in the colours of the Rubik's cube and throughout the night, swap items with others and go home as the one colour.
$27 for food, cruise and DJ!
Awesome drink Specials on the night!

so i got a letter from some queenland uni from which i got an offer.
apperntly if i were to study there my usename and email would be: tankl42

my mother is being harassed by the fob-mob.
all demanding to know my enter and oo-mat.
my mother doesn't know such things.

one woman, whose daughter is also doing the medicine but whose son didn't get an offer tried to suggest that it was easier for me to get in as my mother "talk good english". apparently, you're meant to, according to this woman, call up the health faculty and regularly harass them - its the only way to get in apparently - explain how studious your child is, demand to know why your child, who got over a 99, didn't get a first round offer while someone like the kham did.

i have never felt more sorry for the university admin staff.

still waiting for it to sink in...

honestly, the first thought that came into my head was: "fuck, non-refundable flight and accomodation"

yes, needing heart surgery is a bit like a recieving DUI.

http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2009/01/think-theyre-organic-smirk.html
i wonder what kinda cake you would give a gynecologist

its not everyday someone offers you money for your genitals.
hapened to me today though.
plan B (ANU engineering R/D) offered me money to 'gine' up the engineering department. it's kinda scary. the only criteria were no penises. and then they just gave it to the highest-scoring female going into engineering. engineering R/D has a cut-off of 98. there can't be that many women below me who made it in.

so basically, failing med, i'll be that one girl in the brochure. that one. the only one.

Dear Katherine,
We have added the standardised score for your academic results to the standardised score for your UMAT results. The outcome is that in order for you to gain a place in the UNSW Medicine program, you will need to achieve the following:


- be at least in the top >70% of all interviewees to gain an Unbonded place

Yours sincerely,

Gordon Rees
Manager (Undergraduate Program)
Faculty of Medicine, UNSW

what the hell does that even mean? can i talks that good?


note: i just want a place, bonded or not.
ie. not one of those "damn i got bonded med... i guess i'll do dentistry then"

ps. almost the entire westside is an area of workforce shortage - i grew up in one - i'd probably work in the westside anyway (suturing machete wounds and whatnot)

it's odd.

nobody bats an eyelid at a man who chooses to make a living with his head position between a woman's spread legs.

an female andrologist however... now that's just fucking weird (and a clear indication of sexual predation*)





* ah-lah sheila jeffrys "all podiatrists have foot fetishes"

if you google my name... I'm a pediatrician

I agree: http://www.alternet.org/environment/117200/
possibly another reason not to ever become a lawyer.

UWS = not soo nice.

so apparently ANU (provisional entry) and UWS completely clash for interviews (22nd). and UWS got really bitchy when i mentioned it. that being said, i'll still probably go to the UWS interview because it's undergraduate-entry. ANU was apologetic about the whole thing but couldn't change it.

all I can say is: UWA faculty staff, or at least the med admin guy = fucking awesome.

so i gave him a call, as i haven't heard info from him about interviews since mid-november and thought they might have forgotten about me. he was really nice. we had a bit of chat. he was trying to figure out how many interstaters would actually turn up to his after-first-round-offer-interviews. and we got talking about monash and about bonded and how it wouldn't make much difference to me cost wise as either way i'd probably need to rent a place.

"and you don't have a boyfriend or girlfriend you could stay with?"

now, this may sound inappropriate and as if he were digging round for too much information, but the tone and context was really casual and not pushy. and i also tend to like people who at least humour me when i make a joke.

so i need to get my wisdom teeth done and my maxillo-facial surgeon is actually fucking hilarious - and i think my mother has a bit of a think for him (skinny eccentric asian man)

"i recommend this kind of anaesthetic because if both me and the anaesthesiologist die you won't"

I have a suspicion however, that he choose to specialise in maxillo-facial surgery because you have the most letters after your name (its also approx. 14 years of study).

MBBS(Adel) BDSc(Melb) MDS(Adel) FRACDS(OMS) FACCS FAAFPS

AND he's working on his JD - on the side, you know - in his spare time

he's a real nice guy to, "don't worry about that (hospital fee) - i own the hospital - if you don't have insurance i'll just waiver it - no fee"

it's a huge hassel organising the surgery though as i don't know where i'll be late february.

funniest thing ever:
my father was approached by some random on collins st - apparently he was mistaken for john so

its really shit. i've started to realise that a care a fuckload more about medicine than i initially thought.

i really just wish i could find some quack to put me into a drug-induced coma until after offers come out.

so i popped into the state library today. and i know what you're thinking, and no, i wasn't studying for when uni starts up. sam had to use the facilities to take a dump. and guess who i saw.
shu-yu. and gues what she was doing. why studying for year eleven of course. nuts. I wish i knew what i wanted to do with the rest of my life at that age - i probably would have worked a fuckload harder in school.

people who think my laptop is inferior because its not a branded product are the exact same kind of people who think windows is superior to linux because you have to pay thousands of dollars for half the stability and function. these people are otherwise know as douchebags.

call me old fashioned, but "baby you want it" and "c'mon girl put your ass in the air" is not appropriate music to be playing loudly when you live in flats

indie music: describes music of no particular genre made buy those under the age of thirty-five with too tight/high-waisted pants