side effect of stress

It is stressful studying all the books for mid sem. The books are as high as mountain when I put them all together =.=! I heard there are 2 mechanisms of stress in human being. I don't know how true it is though. When a person is under stress, one of the mechanisms will work to lower the tension in us. First mechanism is that we will not eat. We don't feel like eating at all. Second mechanism goes totally opposite. We will eat nonstop, eat eat eat, eat like nobody's business, eat like a mad person. Some of the girls who have this second mechanism will then have eating disorder. They feel stress, they eat like mad, then they feel guilty for eating and so.. use ways like forcing themselves to vomit what they ate. It was a pity looking at girls with eating disorders. Well, I don't know how these mechanisms work though. I only heard my biochemistry lecturer telling us those that I mentioned above last semester.

So.. yea.. I'm under stress like many of my coursemates and sadly, I'm type 2. My body responds with the second mechanism. I eat nonstop, eat eat eat, eat like nobody's business, eat like a mad person when I'm with my books. Sometimes I really feel like vomitting after I ate especially once I close my books but when I go to the washroom, I didn't manage to throw them out from my stomach. I was thinking whether I will soon have eating disorders because I feel guilty after eating. Previously, I don't feel this way after I eat but nowadays, yes. After eating, I'll ask myself like why can't you just not eat for a day? I'm taking too much calories!

So I went to Seoul Garden which is located on the 3rd floor in Sun Plaza with Joanne today. There are two reasons why I go to this place. This place has got a variety of food, we can eat as much as we can. At home, there is wifi where I won't be able to concentrate on studies. I'll chat with friends in msn or check my profiles in both friendster and facebook instead of studying. So I decided to bring along my book into this restaurant.

I had hard time before going out. Finally I chose this black top as I think I'll look thinner. lol

Black top with jeans plus my favourite treble clef in diamonds given by Ann and her hubby. oh How I wish they were real =.=

So we both started off going to BreadTalk. We thought it might not be that crowded since it is last day of puasa today but to our surprise, all Chinese went shopping today. First time in my life seeing Chinese families going shopping like this in Medan. Usually I only see Chinese hanging out with their friends of their age, aunty gossips with aunties, uncle crapping with uncles, guys looking for pc games while girls shopping and laughing all the way.

Alright ladies and gentlemen, throw a guess on what is inside the box. Breads? Cookies? No No No! hahaha.. nobody gets it! Yay~ *laughs out loudly* okay, I know I abit gila today. Forgive me.

Ta-da~ It's a blueberry cheesecake. It has been months since I last ate it!After getting this cheescake from BreadTalk, we head straight to Seoul Garden. Paid before we went in as usual. This is the third time I'm here. First time was with Joanne, Syuhada, Ethan and See Theng. Second time was celebrating Joanne's birthday where she changed her mind in the end, not treating us. So third time being here, still the same price, thank GOD the price didn't increased. I'm broke now. Super Duper Hyper broke...

This is the price for two person. Already got 10% discount though. Oh to get this 10% discount, you have to be the VIP. To be the VIP, you have to go through complicated processes and apply alot of stuffs. It's troublesome so I advise you not to do so. =.= zzz... I'm crazy today really. Crapped so much. Actually, these complicated applications that I mentioned are applying to get into one of these universities in Indonesia, be one of the students in one of the universities and get the student card. Show the cashier your student card then they'll give you this 10% discount =) See? That's why la.. don't trust me when I said it is complicated and troublesome.

Then it is time to FEAST! Like I said, there are a variety of food you can get here

chicken and beefseafood

vegetables

salad

This is the place the waitress brought us. We settled down and start bbq-ing and steamboat-ing. hehe.. Named Seoul Garden, needless to ask, of course it is a korean bbq =.=

Can't wait to eat!

These are the food that I did just now~

banana is still with her wrong way of holding chopsticks!practice hard on holding with the right waytired of practicing. I rather use the fork. It is easier! Eh? I didn't know I got snapped @.@using hand... I enjoyed more lol

makan makan makan! 

I'm enjoying this cheese cake to the max!

yummy yummy~ I can taste the blueberries on my lips *giggles*

See? CLEAN and CLEAR! Not the shampoo la.. I meant my tongue. Clean tongue! I love this piece of cheese cake~

somehow I didn't manage to finish up this piece of cake. I'm too full!

Done with eating. Study time!

SPOTTED! li ting is eating again. See? Like I said. I can't separate books and food. I must eat when I'm with my books. sigh...

*shocked* got snapped again~

really never thought I'm back to schooling time again. HISTORY?! wth! 

tired with histories of medicine studies in Indonesia =.= I really can't think of a reason on why we have to know history here

result of studying and eating at the same time

FRUSTRATIONS! I don't understand this language. It is so hard to study without understanding the language and have to memorize their history at the same time.

bu bu bu ~ wo bu yao! *opps!* I don't want all these! Mama~ HELP!!

what is this supposed to be? ate too much? depression? Joanne~ don't get so stressed la~

Conclusion? I don't know. You make the conclusion. I had great time eating and studying here though. Hopefully I can pass all papers =)

hangouts

Wanna know the one and place I hangout with my friends?

Yea~ This is the one and only place I hangout with my friends. Sun Plaza looked unexpectedly great! Once you're inside Sun Plaza, you will never every thought the conditions outside the walls of Sun Plaza are that bad. Both inside and outside Sun Plaza made such a huge difference as if they are two different worlds.

It has this fountain right in front of the main entrance. Day time, it looked like an ordinary fountain we cans ee anywhere but when sun sets, it will be lightened up with various colours of lights. Sometimes you can even see formations of the water splashing as if they are dancing! We have to cross the road in order to get into the plaza. This lane is for cars to go underground parking. 

I usually hangout with my friends here. Lunch, tea-time or dinner? What food do you want today? Thailand cruisine? Sushi? Korean cruisine, the famous kimchi? Malaysian food? Chinese dishes? or just back to its country, Indonesian food? You name it, they have it here. Bakeries are surprisingly built in large number at the lower ground floor. Most of the cafe is providing free internet access. Great huh?

What? You wanna have a movie here? There is cinema here too. No worries but the movies are a little outdated though. Those that we watched a month ago in Malaysia, they only have it on cinema now. This is very sad...

Selamat Hari Raya

Raya holiday had started yesterday. I'm having 10 days holiday this year. Unlike the previous year where I went to Berastagi, Sipiso-piso and Lake Toba, this holiday seemed so boring to me. I have no plan till now. Or should I say hugging my books and stack of notes all day and night is my plan for the entire week?

I'll have my Mid Semester Examination in 10 days time. I only started a few topics. This examination seemed hard to me as all papers are to be answered in essay form. Hopefully same thing like my previous IMT papers in my 1st sem won't happen again. Studying Dental Public Health (DPH) is a headache. It is like my old time studying History in school =.= really never thought I'll have history again.

Malaysian Chinese Cultural Club (MCCC) organized mount climbing trip to one of the mountains here. I not sure which mount should it be. I'm not joining though. It is not because I don't like outdoor activities. I, in fact, love these kind of activities. Why don't I join if I like it so much? Let me tell you, it is a 2 days 1 night trip and we are supposed to pay Rp. 40k for this trip. That is so CHEAP!!! but I'm sure readers, you would be down if you know where we're going to stay overnight. Read carefully. We ARE going to sleep on ground WITHOUT tent. YES!! WITHOUT TENT! OMG! It is raining season now. It rains heavily with thunder every single night. How can we stay outdoor without tent that way?! That is a big NO for me.

The Embassy of Malaysia in Medan is so nice that they are going to have open house on the first day of Hari Raya, serving us all Malaysia cruisine. I'm still considering on whether I'm going to the embassy with my friends or not. I miss Malaysia food so much especially the lemang.

I remembered myself going to the stalls in the evening with the crowd during the one month fasting period. All the 'kuih' those makciks selling are delicious. Here I never go out with the crowd that way because all those that they're selling are the same goreng goreng food. Bored with these goreng goreng which make me look exactly like a ball with a doughnut face now T.T

GYPS-burger?

I had another practical for my Dental Material today. Guess what we did? I did a GYPS-bueger! Yay~ Doesn't believe me? It's quite easy to do for me but it is time consuming *giggles* It is fun and it is made of gypsum where gyps is it's short form. It really looked like a burger.

Exactly like a chef mixed up flour and water in order to do cookies, I mixed the powder (gyps) with water in a rubber bowl using a plastic spatula with ratio 2:1. I didn't really follow the ratio though. I just do it according to what I think it is alright. No worries... my work turned out to be really fine, a perfect GYPS-burger. 

After mixing them up, I pour the mixture of the powder and water from rubber bowl into cuvet (there are 2 sides of cuvet, now pour into the lower part). Here we have to pour till it is about 3 quarter full. Then, I place both the incisals I carved the other day on the mixture, pressing it down so that half of the incisals are beneath the gyps.

Next, I'll let the gyps dry and harden. When it is hardening, I can feel the heat from outside the cuvet. It shows there is reaction between the molecules. Now that it is already dry and harden, I have to put vaseline on the surface of the gyps and the wax carved teeth, not to forget the cuvet so that it is easy to be opened later.

The vaseline is oily and sticky, making feel real discomfort. I forgot my pair of gloves. I put them into another bag *slaps of regrets* Now I see the disadvantage of having a few bags at a time. Vaseline act as a separating medium here where it separates the lower cuvet and the antagonis cuvet. We're doing the same thing to the upper side of the cuvet. Mix the powder and water again, and pour them into the cuvet covering the wax teeth.

Leave it to dry and harden again. NOW... li ting's GYPS-burger is ready to be served! Yummy! Anybody? Wanna give it a try on the taste of this GYPS-burger I made? lol

HOTSHOT

HOTSHOT! *screams*

I'm so addicted to Hotshot now! The drama is awesome! It is cool. It is funny at the same time. The actors are all so cute especially xiao zhu~ wee~ I'm now at 4th episode only, can't wait to watch the next episode but I must control myself. Exam is so near. I can't just watch but not study! That is why I'm controlling myself. I'm allowed to watch only an episode a day but at most of the time I feel it is so NOT enough for me!

Jerry's smile is gorgeous. Looking at his smile makes me think of one of my seniors. It has been long since I last met her. She is pretty, tall, has big round eyes and also aa GORGEOUS smile! I like the part where they dance to warm themselves up before their basketball training. That is so cool but why is Xiao Zhu and Jerry both standing behind? 

I wonder how does the story go as they show more on Yuan Da Ying (Xiao Zhu) and Dong Fang Xiang (Jerry) now. I only see Wu Jun once in a while where I don't understand how he appears when the other need help. It seems like he is stalking Da Ying and Xiang. OMG!! I really can't wait to watch the next episode. Hopefully the download can run faster so that I can manage to watch them all together *pray hard*

I also like one of the songs in the movie. Alright, I like the lyrics actually. It goes ' Yea, I'm SUPERMAN, Yea, I'm SUPERMAN, Yea, YOU'RE the LOSER' *giggles* Evil me! But it's true that I used the word LOSER often last time.

KITTAS settled

Its a shame for not knowing what is the long name for KITTAS after staying here for more than a year. Well, KITTAS is one of the VERY important travelling documents for me to stay here for studies. I have to get 'surat izin belajar' from Jakarta before doing my KITTAS. The process of getting the letter from Jakarta takes 6 months. So, while waiting to get KITTAS, we're supposed to renew our Visa every 2 months which will cost us Rp. 250.000

I had problem with my KITTAS before this which stressed me out but its settled now. I'm so happy today that I met this nice guy in the immigration. Unlike the woman before this who scolded me. At least this Mr. A listened to my problem patiently and tried his best to help me =) Arigatou gozaimashita!! 

I somehow got his number so that there is someone in the immigration who I can contact if I got any problem next time. Mr. A looked so familiar to me. I wondered where did I met him before. Is this because Medan is very small? Most of the people around looked so familiar to me but I just can't think of when and where I met them

FRESH from oven~

I got a good news, also a bad news. Good news will be, I'll have one week holiday in few days time. Bad news will be I'll have my Mid Semester Examination right after the holiday. Should I be happy or sad? Examination is so near and yet I haven't started touching a single page of my thick books. There are loads to read for this sem as all the exams are supposed to be done in essay form not like previously, everything in MCQ. Timetable for my Mid Sem Exam:

08 October  Dental Public Health I

09 October  Pathology Clinic

11 October  Dental Radiology I

                  Philosophy

13 October  Orthodontics I

                  Oral Biology

15 October  Pharmacology and Therapy I

16 October  Pathology Anatomy

18 October  Prosthodontics I

stressed out~

I feel so stressed out these days. I don’t want to stay here alone in December! It is all because of the immigration’s fault! They erased my expiry date for KITTAS and in fact brought the expiry date forward, a year earlier. WTH?! I went looking for Pak Daniel hoping to have his help but came home with disappointments all the time. I MEANT IT! Everytime I went looking for him, he'll give reasons as if he doesn't want to help me. I talked to my family who is always supportive about what happened here. They went looking for Dr Lau, one of the agents from the agency who sent me here to solve the problem.

Why are all the Indonesians so irresponsible? Now there are 5 options for me.

First, I have to go to the immigration and ask the people there myself about the reason why they erased the date, hoping they give reason and change it back for me. Of course, here, corruption happens again. I am supposed to pay. I don’t know about how much I have to pay.

Second, I have to go to the immigration too, but another department where I have to ask the people there to let me photocopy the ‘surat izin belajar’ since I don’t have one with me now due to the problem happened a year ago (refer to Abang Fauzi if you know him =.=), in order to extend my KITTAS.

Third, I’ll have to delay the extension of my KITTAS. In another word, I’ll delay the date of expiry, and settle the problem when I’m back here in January which I don't even know if I can settle it in January @.@

Fourth, I’ll do a brand new KITTAS now but I can’t go back to Malaysia in December because all my travelling documents will be kept in the immigration or I don't know where @.@ as long as the INDONESIANS are holding all my important documents.

Fifth, I’ll ignore everything, go home in December without doing ERP (Exit-Reentry Permit) and let them cancel my KITTAS automatically. So the next time I'll need to come back to Indonesia for studies with Visa B, continue with renewing of Visa every single month till I’m back to Malaysia during June and then come again in July with Visa B again and have my new KITTAS done with the juniors.

It is like doing multiple choices question in my life. A, B, C, D, E, what would I choose? Which is the best answer? I don't know how to choose answer for this question. It is difficult and there is no one around for me to copy their answer. I think I’ll choose F if I can, which stands for all of the above? Can I? I'll do a few options at the same time and see how it goes. I really don't want to stay here in December even though my family told me they would come here to accompany me if I can't go back.

I know I've caused a lot of problems to my family. I also know that I can't be that selfish. I can't let them worry of me all the time. They said they wanted to accompany me here because they know all my housemates will go back and I'll be alone. It IS VERY dangerous for a girl to stay alone here! But how long can they accompany me? They have to work. I must work it out. Hopefully everything goes well and I'll manage to go back to Malaysia in my coming holiday. Dear kind readers, thanks in advance for praying hard for me! I'll appreciate them!

carving

I'm proud with my hard work in carving teeh according to real teeth as samples, using melted tooth wax piece. Even though I didn't carve them that well but I'm proud with the 8 carved teeth I've done. I was wondering how come I am the slowest among all the others in this house of mine. Is it because I'm just unlucky? Or am I really slow in doing everything? 

The process of carving is not that easy I can say. I have to go to Matahari Dental Supply, which is the only dental supply I know around Medan to buy these tooth wax piece. Melting these wax are easy but pouring them into the blocks really need some skill otherwise the blocks made will be full with bubbles with low stability! Thanks to all my housemates who did these processes with me. After pouring the wax slowly into the blocks, we have to knock it softly so that the bubbles will come up. At times, when we didn't pour enough wax into the blocks, we have to add them up so that it is according to the size our lecturers wanted. Next, we have to let them cool and dry. 

These are the equipments we used to do the wax blocks

Melting the tooth wax piece

Adding wax

Wax blocks succesfully made for 6 people (me, Joanne, Chun, WS, Loong, Bong)

Carving in the lab is stressful. We have to hurry in the lab to get the approval from lecturers and then do the next step. Frankly speaking, I think lining up to get signatures from lecturers are a waste of time! I wasted plain 6 hours on the long queue in getting the lecturer's signature. At that moment, I'm so left behind as other friends are all faster than me. I felt so stressed out, I felt like crying at the same time BUT li ting is still li ting! I hate myself crying in fron of others. 

Measuring the size of tooth that I'm going to carve

Maxillary canine done halfway

Thanks alot to mummy who supported me everytime I'm down. She told me not to panic and take it  easy. I'm indeed very lucky that I easily get the other signatures for my molars compared to my maxillary premolar.

Take a look at my premolar which took me 6 hours to complete it! A tooth done with frustrations~

occlusal view of the tooth

palatal view of the tooth

mesial view of the tooth

distal view of the tooth

Long queue. I'm still trying to satisfy my lecturers so that they give me signature. SPOTTED Drg. Sumadhi sitting behind explaining to students on their mistakes. He was said to be a perfectionist and so it is very hard to get approval from him.

Discussing with friends on how to finish these things faster =.=''

Finally, my hard work pays =) All eight of them stand handsome-ly and steadily for photoshoot session *giggles* I even have extra time to fool around with friends in the lab after I finish carving and touching up all eight teeth.

from left: maxillary incisal, mandibular incisal, maxillary canine, mandibular canine, maxillary premolar (longest time took to have it done!), mandibular premolar, maxillary molar, mandibular molar

occlusal view of all eight teeth according to the sample real teeth in front of them

Dental Material laboratory. This is the place where I had practicals on carving.

Nothing else better to do in the lab after we've done with all the crazy carvings =.='' This is plate of sushi made specially for you readers lol

lalala~ IMT lab just ended. Always remember the box to be brought home. It contains alot of important tools *winks*