My English teacher mum will disown me.

Kenneth of InvestorBlogger has kindly corrected me in the matter of post script and anything that comes after that. So of course, it is P.S and P.P.S and P.P.P.S. Oops. My bad. Mum doesn’t read this so I think all is good. I’m still her holy and obedient daughter that spends her weekend studying her butt off instead of committing carnal sins. Besides, English is my second language. This excuse is never too old. Hehe!

(Thanks, Kenneth!)

By the way? The mention of that sin is just a reference. It does not indicate in any way that I engage in it…on a weekly basis. I kid, I kid. I don’t engage in it. Ehem. Yeah. Ehem.

So I finished all my readings in 3 days! It took some sacrifices. One of it is being a confined nerd. I’ve only stepped out of the house for the first day to attend lecture. Second and third day, which is today, I confined myself to the cubicle I called my room and soldiered on. It was not that bad. Between readings I had time to make myself plenty of ham sandwiches, steak, play with the household cat, watch Dr. Phil, watch Oprah…

What? What? Watch what?

Dr. Phil and Oprah. Yeah, that’s how boring studying can be sometimes and you’re desperate for entertainment. It takes a lot of willpower and gravity not to smirk at Philly and Oppy. And not that watching them helped my spirit the slightest. It just made me more loopy. The worse thing? That particular Oprah show I watched had Dr. Oz as the guest. Gasp! Horror!

Once again, my mum will disown me for dissing her favourite talk show queen.

I briefly considered doing grocery shopping at a particular boring time. But then I looked at my pantry list and is reminded yet again that last week I had bought enough to last me for 3 weeks. So it wasn’t even a valid excuse.

I did laundry. I swept and mopped my room. I organized my papers. Isn’t it amazing how much one can achieve just to find excuse to avoid prescribed reading? Suddenly washing the dishes seems like a life and death decision. “I must wash it this minute or we will be plague with bacterial translocation! Readings can wait!”

I only have vague idea what ‘bacterial translocation’ means, but I’ve been helping one of my nursing housemate with her assignment. So now my vocabulary is enriched with “dorsal”, “ventilation associated pneumonia”, “acute respiratory disease syndrome”, “semi-incumbent position” and most of all “prone positioning”. Heh. I thought it was so cool!

So my point is, I want to show off, ok? Cos I’m sure most of you don’t know what a JBI is, but I do! HAH! “Unequivocal synthesized findings”, oh man, I have newfound respect for nursing students at this moment. And here I thought all they do is just learning how not to terrorize patient too much, how to count tablets, how to measure cough syrups…how ignorant of me! I’ve always thought nurses are wonderful people with saintly patience. Now knowing what they go through in work and in studies, I think they rock.

I just spent 3 hours staring at a medical-ish chart not unlike a share volatility chart, and nurses are expected to interpret the findings based on the statistical evidence provided. I never thought nurses would ever have to worry about “confidence intervals” and “chi square” and such! I thought that was my domain! Man, do nurses rocks!

In my own field though, next week’s lecture will be on mergers and acquisition, the thing that I have waited so long for. Should be interesting.

Sheesh. Two post about studies within a week. I must be losing my edge.

Alright, back to the books.

(Only after I bloghop. It’s a matter of life and death, you know)