The Synapse Connections of a lifetime

We had a lecture of the anatomy of the breast today. Everything was a usual until the lecturer reached the lymph node slides. It is then where i thought about my Biology lecturer in A-Levels. She thought us for around half a year and then she was suddenly replaced by another lecturer. It was not after a while later that we found out that she was diagnosed with breast cancer. I guess it must have been a late diagnosis as apparently she had reached the advanced stage. The cancer had gone malignant. We were all shocked to hear the news, but life goes on i guess. There was nothing much we could do for her but to give her emotional support. Luckilly she seemed to be a strong woman which always had a smile on her face.

That was two years ago. A few months back, during the winter break, a fellow classmate in Taylors told me that she had passed away. I did not really felt the shock then, as we were told that she only had around a year's time left before we left college.

I had felt the feeling of despair when someone I know passed away. She thought me the lesson to cherish everyone around me.

For all my female friends, do get regular check-ups when the time is right. Be aware and get early interventions.

I'm sorry for everything wrong that i've ever done. Thank you teacher.

Had a lecture on maternal mortality this morning. What irks me is that the lecturer kept comparing the developed world and the developing world. I think there's something wrong is such classification. Everytime a lecturer referred to a 'third-world country' or a 'developing country', it is always a referral to countries such as sub-saharan africa or some country in the middle east. The truth is, within the classification of a 'developing country' there are many countries that are doing much much better than those countries. having my own country being classified the same as countries that are doing much worst is totally unjustified.

We not that bad,

Our maternal mortality is comparable to those of developed countries. Other countries in sounth east asia have good health systems as well.

I think there should be another classification for 'intermediate' countries like us. We're not good enough yet to be a developed countries, but we not that bad as many other third world countries.

Don't put us in the same shoes.. we not that bad..

Something weird happened the other morning. I was up as usual in the morning to prepare myself for class. Suddenly i realise there was another person in the toilet. He was looking through the window overlooking New college, the college right next to mine, happily chuckling away as if something is happening. I decided to ignore him as i could'nt be bothered. (IMO angmohs like to do silly things). Anyway, a few minutes later, another friend came in and went "Hey, what's going on down there?"

Then both of them looked out through the window..

Something is not right.. I decided to kepo then..

The first guy asked us to look into the courtyard of New college and said something like:

"see the bench there? what's beside the bench?"

Sure enough, there WAS something there, and then we realised that it was a chicken..

Apparently, that morning, New college found themselves swarmed by 60 chickens. Someone had smuggled them in as a prank the night before.

As funny as it initially seemed, something was not right.

I did a mental calculation in my head. 60 chickens would at least cost $10 each. That would mean the overall cost for the prank would be 60 x 10 = $600? That would be a little dumb.. I guess whoever did the prank stole a bunch of chickens from a barn. Now this all seemed like a well planned job.

Naturally the people from New college would suspect us, we are notoriously linked to some other incidences before. However, I doubt something this scale could be done by our people. Not to mention that nobody claimed to be the culprit at all.

The incidence was quite serious too as several chickens died of stress. A friend of mine was even summoned to kill some of them. The description was a little disturbing.. haha! The RSPCA or something like that eventually came to clear up the mess.

That concludes the New college chicken incidence.

NB: the winter holidays post will be updated soon.