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I've never imagined myself to be studying a course in the medical or health science field. A lot of people usually picture me as someone doing art (i agree). Yes, they see me more as an "artsy" kind of girl but there are also other things about me than just my artsy side. So aside from being talented and artistic, i'm also adventurous, compassionate, aaanndd a health-conscious freak haha. That part of me changed my perspective and choice of career. So, why Nutrition? it's going to be a loooong story. but i love long stories! and i hope you do too, hehe. At first, when i was a little girl, i've always wanted to be a nurse, ballerina, and a photographer. I loved to play hospital with my sister, dance around my room, and take heaps of photos with my grandpa's very old kodak camera. Ofcourse being that young i didn't know a broad range of different careers. I could only think of the most common ones. But let me first mention that I LOVE food. I don't care about the calories or kilojoules or what not! i love food. enough said haha. Back when i was in primary school, i would consume all these unhealthy, junk foods during recess and lunch breaks [ oh my. i LOVED chips & gravy! lots and lots of gravy!! ]. Being that young and ignorant, i had no certainty of the nutritional facts behind those foods, or what negative factors it can cause in the long run. So pretty much i was consuming saturated foods at the same time consuming bad nutrition. It was only bad because those were the kinds of foods i would eat all day, everyday, nonstop. I had this bad habit of balancing out my plate. It was always 6 servings of saturated and 1 serving of vegetables [or 0 servings of vegetables]. I had a pretty good advantage though, i was also physically active! i played heaps of sports at school, participated in a fun run, entered an interschool athletics carnival [ got first place in running, won a gold metal *wink wink* ;) ] that was me! sporty presh. i also had friends around the cul de sac! we would play all sorts of games, mainly bullrush!! [ oh yeah duh ofcourse, facebook, tumblr, or twitter weren't invented yet. still i wasn't allowed to have any social media back in the day..well i had yahoo mail lol ]. Moving on from that generation, i made my way into high sCOOOOL [ i was never part of the cool kids. but let me tell you one thing, i got Miss Sherwood Hills! booyah!! oh woops! spoiler. hehe. more stories of that award will be posted up in my other (personal) blog]. anyway, yes. i was in high school! My eating habits still haven't improved from year 7 all the waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy (ok stop) to year 10. i ate and ate so much i still maintained my weight. i have always wanted to know why i cannot gain, even just a little. I don't remember what i was thinking back then, if it was a good thing or bad thing? haha. but i still hated being called "skinny." In year 9, we had a PDHPE elective with Mrs. Randazzo, our school's lovely sports teacher. seriously she's awesome! she looks like barbie!..a sporty one though..with her long blonde ponytail tied up, polo, shorts, and a whistle lol. yeah she taught us ALL about physical fitness and health. i actually enjoyed it! easy peezy! [ yeah wait for the intricate stuff. ofcourse, it wasn't uni level] but it was much easier to understand. So she introduced the food pyramid which included all the food groups [ where's the chips & gravy though?! haha snap out of it ]. Then she also taught how those foods can be beneficial to our body, and eating MORE FRUITS AND VEG can prevent cancer [ *gasp* i hate cancer ] and chronic diseases. So yeah, it was starting to change my nutritional perspective..just a tiny bit. Can we skip year 10 & 11? they pretty much explore the same thing. okay year 12!!! my momentous year!!! even though i'm a uni student now and looking back as if it was nothing, but yeah!! haha year 12 was a blastful year i should say, nah pretty emotional one actually. Okay so when i was in year 12, things started to creep up like how many paces will i need to finish on time in order to graduate, what plans will i make from there, what course will i be taking in university, who will i marry, [ wait, MARRY ? NO! not just yet! haha don't rush girl ]. yeah all the adult-serious stuff. What was i going to do?! i've always loved photography, typography & graphic design, and i still do! so i thought hmm, maybe i should do something in those fields at university. I thought it was God's will for me, not until that one day when He said "no, i'm going to change your direction and lead you to this one instead." On May 4th, 2012, i came home from my 17th birthday dinner that i celebrated with some close friends at Pancakes on the Rocks. [again, more of this unforgettable, haunting story will be posted up in my other blog]. On that night, my dad was rushed to the hospital. He had appendicitis. It was probably something he ate. I still didn't have that nutritional knowledge as to how and why. I skipped school the next day and payed a visit to my dad at the hospital. I remember just sitting there listening to a nutritionist or dietitian giving out a dietary plan to him. It promptly caught my attention. In all honesty, i didn't know a Nutritionist or Dietitian ever existed!! i didn't know Nutrition was even a word! HAHA. i just never knew anything about that kind of branch!! [ wooww presh..really..really? ]. But still! i thought it was amazing and inspiring to see and get-to-know the role of that kind of occupation. It was so new to me! and unique! and something i've never heard before in the medical/health world. It got me really interested! I was close to finishing high school, and still felt anxious about my future plans regarding my choice of study in university..or maybe Bible college. Photography and Graphic design were still my top two. I was thinking if it was worth studying art to become a photographer or graphic designer. People kept telling me i'm already good at it. I mean it's all easy stuff, something i can do in my own personal time or as a hobby. So yeah they are already my talents. I thought maybe i should study something more challenging and essential. Then Nutrition has crossed my mind. All i thought of was my dad. I had this compassion for him when he was lying on that hospital bed. He also had a bad habit of balancing out his plate too hehe. so, i wanted to change that. I wanted to study Nutrition and help improve the healthy lifestyle of others, including my family, relatives, friends, and future patients [ hehe, if the Lord leads me to become a Nutritionist/Dietitian some day, i'd be glad and honoured ]. So yeah! i graduated highschool with a Miss Sherwood Hills award and an offer to University of Western Sydney!! i got into the Bachelors of Science in Nutrition & Food Science! i could not believe it. I was sooo happy and overwhelmed. I thought i would never make it in, and here i am already in second year learning it, studying it, and loving it! I'm so blessed to have a One True God who can make the impossible to the possible! If it weren't for Him and the obstacles He had me to go through, i wouldn't have gotten in or chosen that course in the first place. but by His grace, i did! It's not a wish come true, but an answered prayer! ♥

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