Learning Sydney

It's been a really busy week. 

1. Booked tickets to Adelaide and Melbourne, which in total costs me about $300. As TY said, it would have been $150 if i have booked earlier. Too bad, we didn't know if there's gonna be any assignments given to us during the Easter break and when the holiday was dated on, earlier. 

2. Been busy recuperating from atopic urticaria. I had to wear long sleeves for the entire week. What a horrible experince! It's still late summer in Sydney for now, 30 degrees on average. 

3. Been busy fitting busy hospital clinics, ward rounds, mandatory lectures and tutorials, lab visits, BM biopsies, history taking and LUNCH into our daily routine everyday. Not too bad for now, as we're starting to get the hang of it. I've had the pleasure of attending Prof. Goldstein's clinic session and hopefully his ward rounds next week. He's the most impressive clinician that I've met yet. I found out that he's one of the 3 researchers who found the use of Gleevec in treating GIST and its metastases. Gleevec is famous for CML treatment alright, it's also good for GIST?!?! He's really a good teacher, he made me read the cases before the session, asked me questions and guided me in doing PE, made sure I have time for his other sessions!!! I'm lucky to have met him, I'd say =) His registrar is quite cute as well, another plus point. Oh, and he said, "this is so fucked up!", he's cool.

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Some random, cool pictures of Sydney, taken by my bro's DSLR when he was here a month ago. There're plenty, so, I'll upload them slowly.

Coogee Beach (15 mins bus ride away, 40 minutes walk away, yes, I've walked there, once)

Jealous of the proximity of the beach to where I am? Hehe. Skin cancer is one thing, but the gorgeous view is another.

Some pictures of UNSW. These are taken by DSLR.

The main steps of UNSW. The beautiful architecture shading it is called "  The Knowledge"  , due to its appearance that was made to resemble an opened book.

The UNSW main walkway at night.

I'll take more pictures of my uni. For now, here's Wallace Wurth, the UNSW School of Medicine.

This picture is taken by my Blackberry Bold 9700. Hence the drop of quality when compared to DLSR-taken ones.

Wallace Wurth at night.

Van, it's in your favourite colour! This is the newest building in the entire UNSW campus. It's really cool, one is the colour, another is the fact that only Medical students, lecturers and authorized staff can enter this building. We need to swipe our special ID cards for the doors to open. But non-med students always say, "you medical students have a certain prestige, you can come to our campuses, but not vice versa".

I love my campus, it looks so majestic!

This is the junction of Belmore Rd. and Avoca St. I pass by this place almost everyday. The statue erected in the middle is James Cook, the famous English explorer who discovered NSW and many other places. My history is not very good.

More pictures coming up soon!

Peace out!

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