我一直坚信：因为距离，所以美丽。

          旭日东升了。我仰望晴空，万里无云。云雾像约会的情人一样，带着眷念慢慢的散了。晨光照晒在我的脸颊，好暖好暖。午时，太阳展示它雄劲的气势，熊熊的烈火在燃烧，把大地照得通红。

一个晨日刚刚升起，又一个夕阳已下山坡。夜色渐浓，月儿爬上了如水的天空。我凝视夜空，静静的。我欣赏月儿的柔美，沉默的。挂在夜空的月芽好弯，镶在夜空的星星好多。月儿披上银色的披肩，发出淡淡的柔光，就像一位羞涩的姑娘。

太阳欣赏月儿的柔美，月儿仰慕太阳的雄姿。

白天，月儿躲了起来；夜晚，太阳藏了起来。它们喜欢捉迷藏吗？还是没有勇气去面对自己的感情？太阳把自己的英姿给燃上了强烈的光芒；月儿把自己的娇容给遮上了一层薄纱。它们彼此并不晓得对方隐藏在背后的故事。太阳不知道月儿的阴晴圆缺；月儿也不知道太阳的暴躁性情。或许因为距离，也许因为不曾相遇，它们各自欣赏对方，为对方画下了一幅美丽的抽象画。这份单纯的美丽，也许就是永恒。

          这是万木争荣的季节。秋季染红了枫林。此时的枫林是多么的悲壮，远远望去就像一群金蝴蝶在飞舞。我站在好远好远的高山上，细细的欣赏这一幅迷人的景色。但是，我却没有勇气拉近我与枫林之间的距离。不是因为害怕被伤害，而是我不想了解秋季的孤寂，不想分享秋季的沧桑，不想拥抱秋季的悲愁，更不想粉碎它在我心中美丽的记忆。因为我深信：因为距离，所以美丽。

人生总是在选择。生命里没有是非题，只有选择题。你我应该选择，不懂得而美，或是懂太多，而不美。选择懂太多，就像明明拥有鸟儿的自由，却偏偏像风儿一样孤单；明明拥有单纯的期待，却偏偏像夕阳一样短暂。是不是，因为看不透，所以清纯？因为还没有经历，所以美丽？还是因为距离，所以美丽？

生命中太多的失望与遗憾，已经替我注入了一根麻醉剂。经过好长的一段时间，顿时我才明白，原来人生只不过是需要三种“足够”：有足够的能力追求能够得到的；有足够的魄力放弃不能得到的；有足够的耐力容忍不能改变的。

就让太阳在模糊的记忆中欣赏月儿的柔美；就让月儿在孤寂的夜空中崇拜太阳的雄姿。就让我站在远方，遥望金红的枫林。我不想粉碎它们在我心中那种纯纯的美好，就让它保存属于它自己的那份美丽，让这份美丽永恒闪亮。或许在某天回想起来时，我的嘴角会不经意的露出一丝甜蜜的微笑。

美丽的东西不一定要拥有，但拥有美丽的东西就一定要好好地珍惜。

因为距离，所以美丽。放弃，原来也是另一种拥有。

人生，亦是如此。

P/S: 这篇文章是我在三年前即高中毕业前际写的，有幸被刊登在毕业刊内，前几天在翻查文件时无意中发现了多年前的笔迹，借此与大家分享 :)

So, first of all, HI!!! Given the title of this blog post is "Say Hi To Second Year!" lolol!

Just a blink of an eye, i'm now the second year dental student, the senior of the first year juniors (hahaha!), but still is a junior to the many seniors out there!

The difference between the first year and the second year is, we started to enter the simulation clinic for operative dentistry, where there are lots of rubbermen units aka the manikins for us to learn and perform our hand-skills, such as restorations, cavity preparation, tooth isolation, rubber dam placement and etc.

With our formal attire and the lab coat, here we are in the simulation clinic!
P/S: Ignore the ways we handled the hand-pieces, it was just our first time entered the simulation clinic, after all we were just posting for fun haha :)

The tender-gentle-and-soft-looking me

Jiaying

Jingsean was so happy posting with the rubberman

Chyongbih

For the next session we entered the simulation clinic, we were introduced to the various dental instruments, one by one, the names and the functions of the instruments. 

Each student was given a toolbox, where inside the toolbox contains those instruments.

We were told to arranged the instruments on the table correctly, and then in order to get the signature of the supervisor before you leave the clinic, we need to memorize their names and their functions.

You'll know why many people scared to see the dentist

with this overview of the instruments.

A closer look

The conservative set

From left: handle mouth mirror, tweezer,

probe no.9, probe 14W and amalgam carrier

The rubber dam set

From left: puncher, forcep clamp,

frame, five different sizes of clamps

The endodontic set

From left: handle mouth mirror, tweezer clip, probe DG16,

excavator 32L, condenser (heat carrier, the red one),

condenser (Mortonson No.2), ruler metal, scissors,

X-ray clip and the Gutta-percha tray.

Gutta-percha is used to fill the empty space inside the root

of a tooth after it has undergone endodontic therapy.

Spot the model frasaco (the teeth model set),

where we fix it in the manikin in the simulation session.

There are sessions where we need to collect the natural teeth from the clinic, replace the tooth of the model frasaco with it and perform the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of defects of teeth.

Hope this operative dentistry course will be an interesting course for me to learn the basic clinical skills, as well as develop great enthusiasm towards this field besides just reading and memorizing!

Say hi to my new boyfriend and happy learning!

        Finally i had settled everything down in my new room in hostel, really thank God and thank to the nice officers that allowed me to change my room (although it's at the highest floor, the fourth floor, which i nearly break my hands carried my two huge luggages), because the actual room has no socket for me and is just beside the walking corridor of males' hostel, which will never be quiet even at late night.

        I never think that time could pass so fast after working one week at the clinic (just one week before the school reopens), where i learnt a lot of things from Dr Tim, a very nice person to talk with and treat every patients with his great effort. 

        Just one day before leaving from Penang to KL, i was still busy packing Aerius, Prednisolone, Cataflam, Cough-en and so on and busy explaining the dosage to the patients.

        At first i worked at the clinic just to earn some pocket money for myself, but it turned out as an great working experience and learning opportunity for me to understand better the working field of a doctor.

A new semester, a new beginning, a new self.

        I hope i can do better and strive for my best in this new term, be stronger, braver and smarter.

        And be prettier and slimmer! Hahaha :D