blessing in disguise?

most people suffer from monday-itis (definition: a condition where the sufferer dreads monday mornings and feels so lazy to go to work. tend to be sleepy and irritable for at least few hours until lunchtime). "most people" would include me. and this morning, it was an especially bad case of monday-itis.

6.12
i woke up early, sleepy and cranky... i showered and got ready for a long day. packed my lunch, drank a glass of warm milk with honey then realized that it's time to scoot off. i prayed a little prayer while i walked out the apartment, "God, please let today be a great day" (which i usually just rush out of the house and forget to do)

little did i know what would happen today...

7.09
at the tram stop, i saw this number 70 tram approaching from flinder st west. the tram took bloody 2 minutes to reached the stop [irritant #1], still, i got on the tram, hoping that i wouldnt miss my train.

7.17
literally ran from the tram stop to platform 2 flinders street. i hope i didnt miss it!! the 7.17 belgrave train!

shoot...

i did miss it [irritant #2]

so i sms-ed bambi telling him that i would be late. but guess what? 30 seconds later he was standing next to me... we both had missed the train! [irritant #3] oh well... what to do... we sat and just wait.

7.42
we got on the next belgrave train. i was staring absentmindedly at the window. bambi dozed off.

8.36
"the next station is ferntree gully"
i woke bambi up and we started making our way to the clinic.

8.45
finally, we've reached our final destination!! and still have 15 minutes before the first patient. things are not so bad after all :)

however, fiona just had to be the bringer of bad news. she said that she's not sure what to do since our supervisor, dan, has called in sick today, so we shouldnt set up the surgery yet until she talked to the practice manager. she came back in 2 minutes and told us that we're free to go home and do some study. [irritant #4] great, i spent $4.74 and 54 minutes to spend only 5 minutes at knox. roaarrrr! angry!

10.00
reached southern cross station just in time for my metcard to expire. first good thing that happened after the series of misfortunes :D

oh wait, it's not the first. earlier, our exasperation had me and bambi waken up completely from our sleepy and drowsy selves, and decided to resume our routine in-the-train quizzes and discussion, so that all the troubles we had to go through this morning a little bit worthwhile. so we started arguing and discussing about various dental topics, from reverse pull headgear, OVD and class 3 to why calcium hydroxide is contraindicated for primary teeth pulpotomy, to the point that we were laughing at each other trying to imitate class 3 profile. ah, i feel my heart got a bit lighter, as well as slightly enlightened in basic orthodontics. then i realize that i am actually pumped up for studying after our little session.

then...
i come to a realization. maybe God reads my blog too (just kidding, i'm just being silly) but remember how in the last posting i said i was tired? He knows. and He lets me have a day off today. excellent! just what i needed. a day off to study! yayyy!

today was not great to start with, but i'm glad i have the time to study and chill off a little bit. well, a nice twist from the usual rushed routine.
God did hear my lousy little prayer.
it's gonna be a great day~

16.25
allie is happy~ i studied for 3.5 hours without any interruption.