US airway & Liat

Carry-on baggage


US airway
You're allowed one carry-on bag and one personal item. Personal items include a purse, briefcase or laptop bag.
Size requirements
•Up to 45 in/115 cm (14 x 9 x 22 in or 36 x 23 x 56 cm)
•Up to 40 lbs/18 kg
 
Versus
LIAT
passengers will be allowed one piece of cabin baggage inclusive of a laptop at a maximum weight of 15 lbs.(7 kgs.) and maximum overall dimensions of thirty-six inches (36ins) or ninety one centimeters (91 cms.)

Movies

YES MAN
PROPOSAL :) [Sandra bullock]

Outing

http://www.yelp.com/biz/sushi-para-ii-chicago

Sushi Para on North Clark Avenue, Chicago. Sunday Dec 27 2009

Airports

1. ORD
2. PHL 10 http://www.phl.org/flight_search.asp 1501 Departing ST. MAARTEN 7:30 AM A20 ON TIME
3. SXM 2 http://www.sxmarrivaltimes.com/index.html
4. ANU 1 http://www.antigua-anu.airports-guides.com/
5. DOM

+ 9:30 on plane

Christmas Unrelated Food on Dec 25th 09

Snowing

USMLE 2010 & MOSQUITO NET

Check and Check.

A day before Christmas Eve

It was snowing hard in Chicago around 3pm. I was scheduled to see my former Boss.. sorry professor.. I could not make it. It was because of transportation and my laziness. I had to call in to cancel. I felt a bit bad about it. We rescheduled to meet again next week. I wonder what professor would think of me. Very Unprofessional :D Hopefully everything work out okay and my lazy butt wont be in the way of getting things done. Speaking of getting things done, do i need to probe someone to make sure he would do the job? Perhaps, I should chill and not worry abt it. This should save my energy for the worst. My friend sent in a barrel list to ship to DOMINICA - this ensured that I wont be the only one sharing barrel space with my other friend. Anyway, please bear with me on my rambling. the OAKMILL cake that my parents bought to give to professor was left as I could not make it to my former undergraduate university UIC on-time and wet/flaky snow falling very hard up to 4 in or so. Meanwhile, our 85 years old neighbor came over to our home and gave us CHRISTMAX GIFTs: homemade chocolate cupcakes, oranages or tangerine and a jar of strawberry jam. YUMMY. My youngest sister and I thanked him. We wished him happy holidays. I remembered suddenly that the cake that I was not able to give to my boss, this could be a gift for our neighbor. Our family was thinking of using cake as gift a day before and here was our chance. I quickly removed the cake and gave it to him in return for his presents. Afterwards, I recruited my youngest sister to build SNOWMAN. While we were doing it, my younger sister came back from work and joined us in completion of SNOWMEN. The moral of the story is that making a positve twist whatever turned out, and in the end we all should be happy with the results.

Links to Help in Studying

STUDY SKILLS WEBSITES OF VALUE

Course Links
Anatomy quizzes: http://ect.downstate.edu/courseware/haonline/quiz.htm
http://anatomy.med.umich.edu/courseinfo/mich_quiz_index.html
Anatomy:
movements of glenohumeral joints demonstrated: http://www.exrx.net/Articulations/Shoulder.html#anchor108688
how to draw the brachial plexus in 5 min or less:
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/15/brachial_plex_how_to.pdf
Radiology site:
http://www-fhs.mcmaster.ca/resources/chestxray/normal_01.html
http://goldminer.arrs.org/advanced.php
http://medtropolis.com/VBody.asp
http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/GrossAnatomy/dissector/mml/mmlalpha.htm
Histology:
http://www.bio.davidson.edu/COURSES/Immunology/Bio307.html Tons of Immunology Animations (scroll to bottom)
Embryology:
http://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/
http://www.indiana.edu/~anat550/embryo_main/index.html
http://www.embryology.ch/genericpages/moduleembryoen.html
http://www1.indstate.edu/thcme/duong/EMBRYOL.html#anchor59130
Embryology Movies Online Wiki Page
Biochemistry:
www.indstate.edu/thcme/mwking/home.html
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/biochemistry/biochemistry.html
biochemistry questions
http://www.bio.davidson.edu/courses/Immunology/Flash/MAPK.html
Map Kinase Signaling Animation
Physiology:
Heart Sounds http://filer.case.edu/~dck3/heart/listen.html#Murmurs
Neuroscience:
http://neuroscience.uth.tmc.edu/index.htm
http://www.med.yale.edu/caim/cnerves/contents.html
Pharmacology:
Interactive genreal principles, with animations
http://www.icp.org.nz/
How to pronounce pharmaceuticals http://www.adr.org.uk/Pronouncing/dictionary.html
http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/learn/UniSAnet-3/?PATH=/Resources/WORKSHOP-PHARMACY+PRONUNCIATION/Pronunciation+resources+for+Pharmacy+students/&default=Welcome.htm
Study Skills Links
A short course in medical terminology: http://www.dmu.edu/medterms/
This site has ideas on memory, chunking, creativity and problem solving:
http://www.mycoted.com/Chunking
http://www.mycoted.com/Main_Page
Time management: www.mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_HTE.htm
Open University Study Skills:
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/filter.php?grouping=topic&detail=12&order=level
This resource provides an online tutorial in developing thinking skills:
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=1644
Maths for Medics: http://www.rlo-cetl.ac.uk/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=246&Itemid=297#essen
Study guide and MCQ listings: MedStudy Sites.com
Research Resources
HubMed
Health Education Assets Library - a broad collection of valuable, peer-reviewed resources: www.healcentral.org/index.jsp
Evidence-Based Medicine: http://www.evidence4u.man.ac.uk/modules.php?modname=custompage&name=ebm_home
Open access medical education resource: http://www.e-meducation.org/
Check out data values, and more at WolframAlpha - "computational knowledge engine"
Games http://www.medtrng.com/quia.htm

SIX hours overlay at San Juan Airport

I was at the MH airport, Dominica three hours early, hoping to make American Eagle plane on time and arrive at Chicago within six hours. A few things happened - I overslept and slept past 3:00am on Dec 18th. My landlord asked me if she had to wake me up early in the morning (which I call late at night), so that I could be there at airport smoothly. However, I declined thinking that I could pull it off myself. Talk about being independent on the island!! (Note to self, YOU NEED HELP). I tried to stay up til 3am by watching cable on TV. Then dozing of a bit, so I was like, "let me go to sleep for only one hour, wake up at 2am to make myself breakfast and ready for airport"..Guess what? I slept through my alarm and suddenly Alexis Taxi driver called at 3:38am. Shoot! I quickly closed all my luggages, removed my packed lunchbox from the fridge, wore my walking shoes, and placed my extra slippers in my carry-on & OFF I GO. After I locked my apartment, I looked around to see the van. There wasnt anyone out there on the street. Double shoot! I called in the driver and he said he would come by. What? where was he? I did not know how this worked. I was thinking the whole time that the driver picked me up and took me right away to airport (I was feeling guilty for leaving 3am as planned). Oh well, I would go with the flow. A few minutes later, the driver helped me put my luggages in his van and he drove around the Ross University to pick up more students (one was already in the van), this totaled four including me. I found out that students were 2nd semester. They were so smart to leave a day after their finals as there wasnt anything to do on the dreaded island. We were dropped off in front of the RUH and a bus was waiting. We got on there. We could see our luggages place on a pick-up truck (like the way I came to Ross University when I arrived for the first time on Aug 29th). Overall, the service wasnt bad. I was glad I booked my transport to airport with Alexis. 40EC = price. It was well worth it. Some waiting happened to have the bus fill. After one hour drive later, we were at the airport. One long line for LIAT and on right one short line for AMERICAN EAGLE. I did what I was supposed to do: pay airport tax, checked in/passed the security, and waited for 8am plane. Not like LIAT, I was in the waiting room within 30 mins. I got on the airplane, maybe ten minutes late, but overall AMERICAN EAGLE was better than LIAT. When arrived at San Juan, I found out that my next connecting flight was gonna leav in 10 mins, NOT ENOUGH TIME to go through line for US citizens, claim my luggages, check in again, and got on the flight to ORD. Triple shoot! I was left to be stuck in San Juan Airport for 6 hours. Whom was I to tell? No compensation for my trouble by Amerian Airlines? Oh well, what to do? Suck it up and see others going through the similar situation and make yourself feel about it.

Dec 18th 2009

Leaving tomorrow at 3am for one of the two dominican Airport. The flight will only take 6 hours, how great!.. It is like travelling to San Fransico, California. My airport transport was Alexis Taxi. I have a bunch of taxi driver phone numbers on my phone record so when I come back I can call them to pick me up. Or one money-saving plan is to tag along with First semster students who are leaving airport to come to school. Anyway, Christmas is approaching & snow is falling hard in Chicago. Weather will be a bit difficult to adjust to, but I can bear it cuz I am looking forward to meeting my family.

After third exams or so-called mini3

We were tested on the materials covered over one month. Heard that it will be tougher than the previous twos as the question stems are longer. I did okay on the exam and I hope everyone was.

My first post for this BLOG

Listening to music that sister made for herself and that I took it away from her. They were good. I have been listening to them only when I get a break like after each BIG exam, called mini.

On my way to campus, my landlord said HI to me from behind, I completely ignored her, thinking that whoever yelling out was one of those creepy people that I dun want to be assoicated with.

Greek Guy, who is also FIRST semester, was sitting on his patio, smoking cigar, playing guitar, and drinking rum. This is how he relaxes after exam. Some went to bed early. Some watched Video with friends. I, on the other hands, came to campus to get water & organize studying material for FINAL. No idea how to approach it. At the same time, final is a big part of our GRADE for this semester.

"The imprecision of their goals means that these artists rarely feel they have succeeded, and their careers are consequently often dominated by the pursuit of a single objective. These artists repeat themselves, painting the same subject many times, and gradually changing its treatment in an experimental process of trial and error. Each work leads to the next, and none is generally privileged over others, so experimental painters rarely make specific preparatory sketches or plans for a painting. They consider the production of a painting as a process of searching, in which they aim to discover the image in the course of making it; they typically believe that learning is a more important goal than making finished paintings. Experimental artists build their skills gradually over the course of their careers, improving their work slowly over long periods. These artists are perfectionists and are typically plagued by frustration at their inability to achieve their goal." Something that I found interesting..


Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/20/081020fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=3#ixzz0ZA7QkYTi