9th Heaven – עזרא's Sphere: Memento Mori

Finally done with my Human Biology, can’t say I did too well.

I got an email again regarding my essay about plagiarism, but I scanned it through the software recommended from UWA: www.scanmyessay.com

It turned out mostly clean with 2% plagiarism.

EDIT: I rescanned it with my database of ALL my sources, and it only got 5%.

However, the school’s software, Turnitin, states a larger value where I have no idea how it was derived considering even words such as “a” got highlighted.

Currently resolving the dispute with the school, never had this problem in my polytechnic.

UPDATE: My first essay had 13% plagiarism, which was like, maybe a little high,  however, I resubmitted and got 6%, my coordinator told me I will undergo some formal academic misconduct and that she said my plagiarism now is the add-up of 13 + 6 = 19%. The hell is this? Now I’m waiting for some Prof to email me on something, which I seriously have no idea what he’s gonna do. Ah well, let the hand of the Lady carry me wherever I can go, and I’ll look at the outcome again. :S

I had the first lecture yesterday, it sure as hell, was more of a tutorial or more like a talk, with a eccentric PhD prof who has a attitude of f***all and he droned and droned about organic chemistry. It was made slightly bearable with his regular sarcastic remarks and his clear explanations. Though the room was bloody freezing.

And it is pleasing to note that my organic chemistry is fairly poor.

Incidently, I saw my nicest lecturer and one of my worse nightmare, Mdm Teh Yun Ling. Unfortunately she couldn’t recognise me anymore and I couldn’t get her contact for help in the module.

Also, thanks to the late arrival of the timetable of my next module, it clashed with quite a bit of my duties.

Worse, most of my saturdays are affected so got tons to think about planning the next month’s roster duty forecast.

And well, today I drove home using an auto transmission car, and wow, it was sure confidence boosting. On the way, I had a rather pleasant chat with my instructor on the walks of life and here and there about the Traffic Police Test I’ll be soon taking. He’s rather disapproving of my scheduled lifestyle, where my personal life, enjoyment and work/studies are divided strongly, where career and studies takes precedence over everything else, and of course, taking up a major part of life. I don’t really get why he says that, perhaps maybe because of this lifestyle, I don’t get to go out and enjoy much, or he can’t accept this way of life for himself. Because it’s like, why work, when work is a joy everyday (of course except NS)

Afterwards, I left for a haircut, where the hairdresser told me she’ll try a new style and I ended up like this lol.

Seriously, this has the centre ridge of the david beckham hairstyle and the shortness of an army regular. And the outcome is below lol.

Seriously, I feel it looks weird, I think I’ll never go there and cut again lol.

Well enough ranting, til next time then, gtg study my organic chem and ampt.

I kinda have a real bad week, plus my upcoming exams, I’m not going to be posting BioNews this week, sorry.

First let’s begin Monday, where I got an email from my school course coordinator regarding my essay has quite some amount of plagarism, okay, maybe not in reality, considering it even highlighted the word ‘a’. But still, whatever the Turnitin machine churns out, I had to follow. But problem is, I couldn’t access my school mail, and I got this plagarism email on 3rd of Nov and the deadline was 8th. Sadly enough I got it working on the 10th. I sent an email regarding that and was not given a extension.

Okay, looks like I failed my essay. I was so much in the bad mood that I couldn’t absorb whatever I was reading on tues for the topic quiz and didn’t remember anything at ALL. And thus, there goes failing one quiz.

Then, I thought, hey, then sun’s coming out soon, as I always say, there’s a finite span to everything. And no, I was studying for my Annual Medic Proficiency Test, and then I received a call that my dad got into an accident. The most ironic thing is that he was hit by a Auxiliary Police vehicle. Fortunately, he’s alright, just that his vehicle and passengers where rough up a little, one had to go A&E. So that had me worried until he came back at night meaning another day lost by distractions.

Thursday came the AMPT. I did okay for everything until the last Station, where before that, I got an overall of 74% (First station was theory, Second station was Drowning + CPR). The last station was Spinal Management, which I couldn’t remember a thing from it, and the tester didn’t let me use a KED. So basically, I failed, not remembering anything, however, when the tester showed me the techniques, I compared it with the books and it wasn’t right at all! I used the modified trapezius squeeze to turn the patient, while he just held on the shoulder and arm of the Pt, and just turned! My sternum grip arm rested on the Pt’s sternum while his rested on the Pt’s arm! Spinal injuries are supposed to have stability, how is the Pt’s arm stable? Later I found out many others failed by the same way, and everyone he tested except for one, all failed lol. To make things worse, TPM came to test too. That made everyone fail even those army regulars, except for one servicemen like me. A small consolation, more than half of the test group failed. I have to book another test date again, hopefully sometime during the CAF CoC parade, so I can’t go for it =x

Well, by Friday I was so mentally tired that I just switched off for the whole day, and didn’t managed to do anything.

Fortunately, my school coordinator accepted my reason of being unable to access my email and accepted it, so things for my Human Bio module aren’t so bad at all.

And today’s Saturday, it’s time to get off the computer and start mugging, and if I get any questions later, I’ll ask my tutor about them in the evening.

Ah well, enough ranting and start mugging.

See ya next week!